From time to time you might need to install (ie. for testing) a non-stable version of software onto Yunohost. In many cases this can be both a scary and complicated process. With Yunohost, however, it’s shocking easy and almost feels ‘friendly’ like the rest of their user interface. There are two ways to do it: With a command line while…
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Installing Roundcube in Yunohost
Roundcube is amazing email webmail software. Not only does it have encryption (awesome) but it also seems to have DKIM and the full meal deal. Best of all it comes with Yunohost as a one-click and well supported install. It is a ‘one-click install’ on Yunohost… However… you should consider before you begin, if you want it sitting on your…
Setting up Yunohost on Digital Ocean
This is the main tutorial I followed to install Yunohost (“YH” for rest of blog) on a Digital Ocean (“DO” for rest of blog) droplet, and this blog is basically my expansion notes to go with it to help myself and others who might need. Before you begin the rest of the YH setup work, make sure your owned domain…
How to make HP Laserjet 1000 work on Ubuntu 20.04
my updated notes on getting an hp laserjet1000 working on ubuntu…
How to install WordPress on Ubuntu Server
My notes for installing Wordpress on an ubuntu server…
How to install Mautic on an Ubuntu Server at Digital Ocean
The server installation guide in the docs for Mautic is ‘pretty good’ but still expects that you’re already a system admin kind of person and now how to do stuff. I’ll walk you through the install in the usual way I do in hopes that it helps some of the steps. This link shows the server requirements users install apache2:…
How to Install Older PHP and Server Software with Digital Ocean
Why? Someone asked me to set up some old proprietary server software stuff that would no longer work in a modern server environment. I figured it might be possible if we match the mysql and php versions and give it a shot. Here is my documented journey in case anyone else needs to / wants to do something similar. Set…
How to Install Zint on Ubuntu
How to install Zint (command line) on Ubuntu. I was hoping this would work with a GUI but for the life of me I could not figure it out nor find the repository. It used to work, obviously, by a simple sudo apt install but I’m gettin the ‘can’t find repository’ message. I think it might only work for 20.04…
Making Roblox work on Ubuntu
Before you Begin – A Brief History As sad as this is, and as many countless hours as I’ve wasted on this that I’ll never get back, I’ve resolved there is no way to make Roblox work in Ubuntu / linux – not even running in a VM on Ubuntu. If you want to read more about the vm journey,…
Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Windows 10 VM on an Ubuntu Host
Virtualbox can do a lot more if you get the ‘guest additions’ stuff working. You can read up on other people’s blogs about that more. For now, I just wanted to walk through a bullet point summary of how to get it working on a Windows machine running as a VM inside an Ubuntu Virtualbox host. Probably this method will…