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28May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 16 Comments

Build-Essentials in CentOS?

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu

If you are like me, you may be doing this to install essential build libraries to compile something from source :) Build essential is a Ubuntu / Debian package. On CentOS, you need to do this Warning: This will install all development tools approx 49 packages closing to 65MB

27May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Linode is Blazzing Fast

Personal, Thoughts

I asked my client to buy a Linode for some testing purposes and I tried it for the first time. I must say, Linode is blazzing fast. Downloads are touching 8M/sec and speed, performance is as if its running on a VM on my local system. Update: Now its been almost a month running Linode and I strongly recommend this VPS company.

15May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Good bye CentOS! Hello Ubuntu

CentOS, Linux, PHP, Reviews, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

Its been about almost more then two years since I have been playing with CentOS on many different platforms etc. Its very stable but on the other hand, PHP/MySQL updates are very hard to get and still PHP is 5.1.6. I tried EPEL repo and it updated PHP to 5.3.1 but still there were conflicts with stuff and many core packages. So, I thought why not move to Ubuntu since it has just announced 10.04LTS (Long Term Support) in April 2010. Folks at iWeb were really nice to do a reinstall without any charges and also process a memory upgrade request at an amazing 50% discount. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Apache 2 version is 2.2.14 PHP version is 5.3.2 MySQL version is 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 SVN (Subversion) version is 1.6.6 As a comparison…

08May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Bought a new VPS from QuickWeb

CentOS, Linux, Ubuntu

I just secured a nice deal on QuickWeb.co.nz's Texas data center. Thanks to lowendbox for the info on this special coupon. Plan to use it to test new stuff before putting it on my two other production servers (with iWeb.com).

12Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Fixing Pear ‘unsupported protocal’ error

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tutorials

Are you getting the following error while updating any package in pear? pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal - This should never happen. I got this error right after I upgraded PHP from 5.2 to 5.9 (using CentOS-Testing repo). To resolve this situation, do this. and then do this It should now give you the following output That's it, your issue is resolved.

09Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

To update or not to update?

CentOS, Linux, Thoughts, Ubuntu

All my technical life, I knew and followed this simple rule New updates to any application or component are meant to improve and fix the bugs present in it. Downloading new updates ensures that you system is up-to-update, has fixes to all those bugs you have been getting annoyed with and more stable. Unfortunately not every IT department thinks that, especially the one I am facing at work. According to them, the new updates should only be applied IF and only IF they offer some new functionality (duhh!). Hello! what happened to the bug-fixes that are promised with these updates? (more…)

07Aug 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

CentOS yum update missing dependency error

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If you are using on CentOS and getting the following errors Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386 (installed) gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed) Don't panic, the solution is simple ... just run the following command Then do

10Jul 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

Installing PHP 5.2.6 on CentOS box

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If you want to install PHP 5.2.x instead of the PHP 5.1.6 offered with default CentOSPlus repo. Please consider installing the utterramblings repo. Setting up this repo is a breeze ... just follow these steps (more…)

02Jul 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

How to Install Apache, PHP and MySQL on CentOS

How to, Linux, OpenSource, PHP, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials

I have seen people installing Apache, PHP and MySQL from source code on a production server. You should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER install these packages from source on an RPM or DEB based Linux distributions. Did I say “NEVER” enough times to make your realize that it is not a good practice? Installing from source is bad idea; there are many reasons for this but the major one is that you will be spending a lot of time keeping the system updated. If you love installing from source then I would suggest using a different distribution e.g. Gentoo. You can build from source if the package is not available in yum but still, try to use “yum” (or “apt-get” on Ubuntu) because it will save a lot of your time when…

01Jul 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to Install Webmin on CentOS

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Install dependencies before we proceed to install webmin Download latest rpm package from Webmin's official website Once it is downloaded, install the RPM using the following command No more steps required. Its installed :) Go to your browser and access the control panel with valid ssh credentials. Default URL is https://your-ip:10000/ (IF you have not changed the default port)

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