Jun 30, 2023 Posted by newlife007

How to Create a CentOS 7 local repository

How to Create a CentOS 7 local repository Introduction In this post we will cover how to create a CentOS 7 local repository that you can use to patch CentOS 7 systems that do not have access to the Internet for updates or for your home network. We will create a web site with NGINX, download the updates, extras and others packages, set to update daily and configure systems to use the local repository in... read more

Jun 19, 2023 Posted by newlife007

How To Extend GPT Drive on Ubuntu Server

How To Extend GPT Drive on Ubuntu Server Recently ran into an issue with adding space to GPT RAW formatted disk on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS. The drive was not a standard LVM format. The steps below describe the process to extend the GPT drive. Step By Step Login to the server and become root. If you do not or cannot become root just add sudo in front of all the commands in the post. Type sudo su –... read more

Apr 23, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Upgrade from Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (Jammy)

How To Upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Introduction It’s April 21, 2022 and the next release of Ubuntu LTS has been released to version 22.04 (Jammy). In this post we’ll cover how to upgrade your 20.04 (Focal) to 22.04 (Jammy). Note: If you have any custom entries in your sources.list you may want to make changes to point to the new release if they are available. The Process... read more

Apr 12, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Wine Stable on Ubuntu 21.10 Impish

How To Install Wine Stable on Ubuntu 21.10 Introduction There are just some Windows only programs or games that you just want to be able to run on your Ubuntu Linux system that require a bit of help, this is why the Wine project was born. System Preparation First off we will need to add the WineHQ repository and GPG key to your system.  The reason we are using WineHQ repository is due to the fact that... read more

Mar 5, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Fix RetroPie 4.7.1 No Sound 3.5mm Jack In EmulationStation

How To Fix RetroPie 4.7.1 No Sound 3.5mm Jack EmulationStation Introduction Recently I started a project on creating an arcade using a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with RetroPie and ran into an issue in getting the 3.5 mm headphone jack to work for the sound output. This was mentioned in the RetroPie Release Notes for 4.7.1. Through searching I found bits and pieces to rectify the issue. In this post we will see how... read more