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Windows 10

Fix: “driver being installed is not validated for this computer”

One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in the bundled driver indicating that drivers only obtained from the…

theshell
April 10, 2020

Ubuntu

Install NodeJS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04

We’ll be looking into how to install Node.js on Ubuntu versions 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04. We’ll install Node.js with NVM (Node Version Manager). This lets us install any version of Node.js and then switch between them with one command.…

theshell
October 1, 2019

CentOS

Requires: libpcre.so / CentOS 7

Ran into this rather peculiar error recently while installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 7. Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package varnish-devel.x86_64 0:5.2.1-1.el6 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: varnish = 5.2.1-1.el6 for package: varnish-devel-5.2. 1-1.el6.x86_64 --> Running transaction…

theshell
August 2, 2019

Windows 10

Install MySQL / MariaDB on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let’s you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We’ll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running inside WSL. Before we start, make sure you have WSL…

theshell
July 22, 2019

CentOS

Install GUI with VNC – CentOS 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7

Running a headless (terminal only) server is great and all but sometimes a GUI helps. We’ll be installing GNOME 3.28 on CentOS 7.4. This comes really handy when you want to remotely administer a server and keep the bloat to an…

theshell
January 23, 2019

CentOS

Install netdata – CentOS 7

With the EOL of the free tier of NewRelic’s Server monitoring service, we tried going commando for a while, meaning no server monitoring. We know bad – bad, idea. NewRelics Server monitoring service was great but the free tier came…

theshell
January 9, 2018

CentOS, Ubuntu

Mount ZFS Pools on Boot

We recently ran into a snag with a new ZFS installation, the darn thing wouldn't mount the pools we created on boot. The solution turned out to be pretty straight forward, Issue the following at shell and reboot to test:

theshell
September 21, 2017

Ubuntu

Mount exfat partitions on Ubuntu / POP OS 16.04, 18.04 LTS, 19.10

Ubuntu isn’t bundled with exFAT read/write support out of the box, scouring the internet revealed we needed to install two packages. exfat-fuse exfat-utils This threw a very ugly error Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package…

theshell
July 4, 2017

CentOS 7

Error: The GeoIP module requires the GeoIP library – Nginx / CentOS 7.3 Edit |

Yet another error while trying to compile nginx from source. ./configure: error: the GeoIP module requires the GeoIP library The fix is simple, issue the following at shell: yum install geoip-devel

theshell
May 25, 2017

CentOS 7

Error: Perl module ExtUtils::Embed is required – Nginx / CentOS 7.3

If you run into the following error while compiling nginx from source, follow the steps below: ./configure: error: perl module ExtUtils::Embed is required Issue the following at shell: yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed That’s it.

theshell
May 25, 2017