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How to install Inkscape 0.92 (latest) as a snap in Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on: February 2, 2017 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

Inkscape is professional open-source vector graphics editor. The latest version is 0.92. Here is a video demonstrating the new Inkscape 0.92 features. And detailed Inkscape 0.92 Release Notes. Here is how to install as the Inkscape snap on Ubuntu 16.04 (and other GNU/Linux distributions that support snaps). The snap was created by Inkscape Board member

How to try the new MUFFIN (“Ribbon”) toolbar of LibreOffice 5.3 in Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on: February 1, 2017 /

Categories: Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

LibreOffice 5.3 has several new features and one of them is the new MUFFIN toolbars. Let’s try them out. First, we installed LibreOffice 5.3 on Ubuntu using a snap and start the new version of LibreOffice Writer. By default, the new MUFFIN toolbar is not available because it is currently an experimental feature. We need

How to install LibreOffice 5.3 from snap on Ubuntu 16.04 (and others)

Posted on: February 1, 2017 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

Update #1: 3 Feb 2017: The new LibreOffice 5.3 has been released to the stable snap channel, which means the process of installing is quite easier. See at the end of this post for the simplified instructions, to install from fresh or switch channel from edge to stable. LibreOffice 5.3 was released a few days

How to completely remove a third-party repository from Ubuntu

Posted on: January 17, 2017 /

Categories: Linux, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

Suppose you added a third-party repository of DEB packages in your Ubuntu and you now want to completely remove it, by either downgrading the packages to the official version in Ubuntu or removing them altogether. How do you do that? Well, if it was a Personal Package Archive (PPA), you would simply use ppa-purge. ppa-purge

How to install LXD/LXC containers on Ubuntu on cloudscale.ch

Posted on: August 9, 2016 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

In previous posts, we saw how to configure LXD/LXC containers on a VPS on DigitalOcean and Scaleway. There are many more VPS companies. cloudscale.ch is one more company that provides Virtual Private Servers (VPS). They are based in Switzerland. In this post we are going to see how to create a VPS on cloudscale.ch and configure to

How to set up multiple secure (SSL/TLS, Qualys SSL Labs A+) websites using LXD containers

Posted on: July 23, 2016 /

Categories: general, Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, security, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

In previous posts we saw how to set up LXD on a DigitalOcean VPS, how to set up LXD on a Scaleway VPS, and how the lifecycle of an LXD container looks like. In this post, we are going to Create multiple websites, each in a separate LXD container Install HAProxy as a TLS Termination

Playing around with LXD containers (LXC) on Ubuntu

Posted on: July 22, 2016 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

We have set up LXD on either our personal computer or on the cloud (like DigitalOcean and Scaleway). Actually, we can even try LXD online for free at https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/ What shall we do next? Commands through “lxc” Below we see a series of commands that start with lxc, then we add an action and finally

How to install LXD containers on Ubuntu on Scaleway

Posted on: July 13, 2016 /

Categories: general, Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

Scaleway, a subsidiary of Online.net, does affordable VPSes and baremetal ARM servers. They became rather well-known when they first introduced those ARM servers. When you install Ubuntu 16.04 on a Scaleway VPS, it requires some specific configuration (compile ZFS as DKMS module) in order to get LXD. In this post, we see those additional steps to get

Trying out LXD containers on Ubuntu on DigitalOcean, with block storage

Posted on: July 13, 2016 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

We have seen how to try out LXD containers on Ubuntu on DigitalOcean. In this post, we will see how to use the new DigitalOcean block storage support (just out of beta!). This new block storage has the benefit of being additional separate disk space that should be faster to access. Then, software such as LXD would benefit from

Trying out LXD containers on Ubuntu on DigitalOcean

Posted on: June 27, 2016 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, security, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

You can have LXD containers on your home computer, you can also have them on your Virtual-Private Server (VPS). If you have any further questions on LXD, see https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/11/lxd-2-0-blog-post-series-012/ Here we see how to configure on a VPS at DigitalOcean (yeah, referral). We go cheap and select the 512MB RAM and 20GB disk VPS for $5/month. Containers are

Trying out LXD containers on our Ubuntu

Posted on: June 25, 2016 /

Categories: Linux, open-source, Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

This post is about containers, a construct similar to virtual machines (VM) but so much lightweight that you can easily create a dozen on your desktop Ubuntu! A VM virtualizes a whole computer and then you install in there the guest operating system. In contrast, a container reuses the host Linux kernel and simply contains just the root

Πως φτιάχνουμε εύκολα app (webapp) για το Ubuntu Phone!

Posted on: March 27, 2015 /

Categories: Planet Ubuntu, ubuntu, Ubuntu-gr

Θα δούμε πως μπορούμε να φτιάξουμε εύκολα ένα webapp (εφαρμογή/app που εμπεριέχει mobile website) στο Ubuntu Touch. Για τα βήματα αυτά δεν χρειάζεται να έχουμε καν το κινητό. Ξεκινούμε με το να βρούμε ένα δικτυακό τόπο που διαθέτει μια έκδοση για κινητά (mobile website). Για το παράδειγμά μας, χρησιμοποιούμε το www.real.gr. Καθώς βλέπουμε το www.real.gr,

How to install Inkscape 0.92 (latest) as a snap in Ubuntu 16.04

How to try the new MUFFIN (“Ribbon”) toolbar of LibreOffice 5.3 in Ubuntu 16.04

How to install LibreOffice 5.3 from snap on Ubuntu 16.04 (and others)

How to completely remove a third-party repository from Ubuntu

How to install LXD/LXC containers on Ubuntu on cloudscale.ch

How to set up multiple secure (SSL/TLS, Qualys SSL Labs A+) websites using LXD containers

Playing around with LXD containers (LXC) on Ubuntu

How to install LXD containers on Ubuntu on Scaleway

Trying out LXD containers on Ubuntu on DigitalOcean, with block storage

Trying out LXD containers on Ubuntu on DigitalOcean

Trying out LXD containers on our Ubuntu

Πως φτιάχνουμε εύκολα app (webapp) για το Ubuntu Phone!

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