I was working on an open source project recently, and I needed a repository to host some custom packages. However, you might have your own reasons to create yum repository. You can create a local version of an online repository so everytime you install a package network bandwidth is not consumed. Or there can be many other possible reasons. In…
How to install Nginx, PHP, PHP-FPM and MYSQL from source to run a wordpress site on Ubuntu 16.04
Many Linux package managers have built in packages for nginx, php and mysql, they are good if you have less experience with Linux, but installing from source will give you more control our installation locations, settings and much more. So today we will see how we can install Nginx and PHP-FPM (from source) and mysql from the package manager and…
How to install/un-install packages using yum and apt-get in Linux
Installing packages on linux was a biggest mystery to me when I started learning unix/linux, so I thought to write a complete guide on how to install/un-install packages using yum and apt-get in Linux. In Linux softwares or applications that execute on machine is called packages. We will go through: RPM (Red hat package manager). apt-get (Debian based package manager)…