Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.9 installation guide

30/04/2013 1 Comment

This short walkthrough describes how to get the linux kernel version 3.9.0 (latest version at the moment of writing) working under Ubuntu Linux without having to compile it yourself.

This guide should work with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Mint. The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration.

Installation Guide

  1. Download the kernel headers package: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9-raring/linux-headers-3.9.0-030900_3.9.0-030900.201304291257_all.deb
    And the appropriate package for your system

  2. And the accompanying compiled kernel image:
  3. Install the files in the same order as downloaded above.
  4. In the terminal run:
    sudo update-grub
  5. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

The source can be found on www.kernel.org

I will post the latest version of the 3.9 branch in comments below.

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Raspberry Pi LAMP installation guide

10/03/2013 Leave a Comment

This short guide teaches you how to turn Raspberry Pi into a LAMP server.
LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP

Step 1: update the Raspberry Pi OS to the latest version:

sudo apt-get install -y rpi-update
sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Step 2: install Apache Webserver and create permissions:
sudo apt-get install -y apache2 apache2-utils
sudo groupadd -f -g33 www-data
sudo chown pi:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod 775 /var/www

Step 3: install PHP and mod_php
sudo apt-get install -y php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common mysql-client
sudo apt-get install -y php-pear php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-ps php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-json

Step 4: Install MySQL and phpMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server
mysql_secure_installation
sudo apt-get install -y phpmyadmin

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Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.8.0 installation guide for ARM processors

19/02/2013 4 Comments

This guide explains how to install the Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.7.0 on an ARM system using the ArmHardFloatPort.

Installation Guide

  1. Download the kernel headers package;
    linux-headers-3.8.0-030800_3.8.0-030800.201302181935_all.deb
  2. And the appropriate package for your system;
    linux-headers-3.8.0-030800-omap_3.8.0-030800.201302181935_armhf.deb
  3. And the accompanying compiled kernel image;
    linux-image-3.8.0-030800-omap_3.8.0-030800.201302181935_armhf.deb
  4. Install the files in the same order as downloaded above.
  5. In the terminal run:
    sudo update-grub
  6. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

The source can be found on www.kernel.org

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Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.8.0 installation guide

19/02/2013 4 Comments

This short walkthrough describes how to get the linux kernel version 3.8 (latest at the moment of writing) working under Ubuntu Linux without having to compile it yourself.

This guide should work with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Mint. The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration.

Installation Guide

  1. Download the kernel headers package;
    linux-headers-3.8.0-030800_3.8.0-030800.201302181935_all.deb
  2. And the appropriate package for your system
  3. And the accompanying compiled kernel image;
  4. Extra files;
  5. Install the files in the same order as downloaded above.
  6. In the terminal run:
    sudo update-grub
  7. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

The source can be found on www.kernel.org

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How-To Fedora Linux 18 LAMP installation

16/01/2013 4 Comments

This short guide demonstrates how to setup Fedora 18 as a LAMP server containing Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and MySQL.

You have to use the shell and be able to use the machine as  root.

Start the terminal and run:

sudo yum install -y httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-magickwand php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tidy php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-mhash curl perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 php-pecl-apc mysql mysql-server phpmyadmin at ruby mod_python perl mod_perl perl-HTML-Parser perl-DBI perl-Net-DNS perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall perl-NetAddr-IP perl-Archive-Tar

Second step is to enable the Apache Webserver and MySQL Database server;

systemctl enable httpd.service
systemctl start httpd.service
systemctl enable mysqld.service
systemctl start mysqld.service
mysql_secure_installation

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