How-To Raspberry Pi print server (with AirPrint)

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This guide demonstrates how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a print server, with AirPrint support

First step is to install CUPS and related plugins

sudo apt-get install cups cups-pdf gutenprint pycups avahi python2 python-cups
sudo usermod -aG lpadmin pi
sudo /etc/init.d/cups start

Second step is to fully integrate AirPrint

sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-discover libnss-mdns
sudo mkdir /opt/airprint
cd /opt/airprint
sudo wget -O airprint-generate.py --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate/master/airprint-generate.py
sudo chmod 755 airprint-generate.py.
sudo ./airprint-generate.py -d /etc/avahi/services
sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
echo “image/urf urf (0,UNIRAST)” > /usr/share/cups/mime/apple.types
echo “image/urf application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 pdftops” > /usr/share/cups/mime/local.convs

Step is is to install  Samba (for compatibility with Windows PCs)

sudo apt-get install samba
sudo /etc/init.d/samba start

If you have a special printer, like I do you might want to install the following extras:

sudo apt-get install foo2hp
sudo apt-get install HPLIP

How-To Enable Automatic Updates on Ubuntu Linux

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To enable automatic updates (Unattended upgrades) on Ubuntu Linux to keep your system safe, run the following line in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades

Fedora Linux desktop via RDP

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To control an Fedora Linux pc via RDP you will need to install XRDP. This can be done by running the following command in the terminal:

sudo yum install xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp.service
sudo systemctl start xrdp.service

How-To Fedora Linux LAMP installation

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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 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;

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