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The post How to Install KDE Plasma in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .KDE Plasma (KDE) is a well-known desktop environment for Unix-like systems designed for users who wants to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, The post How to Install KDE Plasma in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article

The post How to Install ImageMagick 7 on Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .ImageMagick is a free and open source, feature-rich, text-based, and cross-platform image manipulation tool used to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It runs The post How to Install ImageMagick 7 on Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article

The post How to Install Postfix with Roundcube Webmail on Ubuntu and Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Creating a mail server on Linux-powered machines can be one of the most essential tasks that every system administrator needs to perform while configuring the The post How to Install Postfix with Roundcube Webmail on Ubuntu and Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article

On Friday March 29, Microsoft employee Andres Freund shared that he had found odd symptoms in the xz package on Debian installations. Freund noticed that ssh login was requiring a lot of CPU and decided to investigate leading to the discovery. The vulnerability has received the maximum security ratings with a CVS score of 10 and a Red Hat Product Security critical impact rating. Red Hat assigned the issue CVE-2024-3094 but based on the severity and a previous major bug being named Heartbleed, the community has cheekily named the vulnerability a more vulgar name and inverted the Heartbleed logo. Luckily the vulnerability has been caught early Red Hat wrote: "Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt object file from a disguised test file existing in the source code, which is then used to modify specific functions in the liblzma code. This results in a modified liblzma library that can be used by any software linked against this library, intercepting and modifying the data interaction with this library." The malicious injection can be found only in the tarball download package of xz versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 libraries. The Git distribution does not include the M4 Macro that triggers the code. The second-stage artifacts are present in the Git repository for the injection during the build time, if the malicious M4 macro is present. Without the merge into the build, the 2nd-stage file is innocuous. You are recommended to check for xz version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 in the following distributions and downgrade to 5.4.6. If you cannot you should disable public facing SSH servers. More from TechRadar Pro Best managed VPS serversCheck out our top picks for best managed WordPressScalaHosting review View the full article

The post How to Install VLC Media Player in Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .VLC Media Player is an open source versatile and renowned multimedia player, offering a seamless playback experience for various audio and video formats, which includes The post How to Install VLC Media Player in Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article

Anaconda is a Python distribution just like Ubuntu is a Linux distribution. Anaconda comes pre-installed with all the data science and machine learning tools. So, you don’t have to waste time in installing those tools separately on your computer. It’s great for data scientists and ML beginners and experts. In this article, we will show you how to download the Anaconda Python on Debian 12. We will also show you how to install the Anaconda Python on Debian 12 and how to activate/deactivate the default Anaconda Python environment as well. Topic of Contents: Downloading the Anaconda Python for Debian 12 Installing Anaconda Python on Debian 12 Checking If Anaconda Python Is Installed on Debian 12 Activating the Anaconda Python Environment Manually on Debian 12 Conclusion Downloading the Anaconda Python for Debian 12 To download the Anaconda Python installer for Debian 12, visit the official website of Anaconda with your favorite web browser. Once the page loads, click on “Download”. Your browser should start downloading the Anaconda Python installer for Linux. It takes a while to complete. At this point, the Anaconda Python installer for Linux should be downloaded. Installing Anaconda Python on Debian 12 Once the Anaconda Python installer for Linux is downloaded, you can find it in the ~/Downloads directory of Debian 12. $ ls -lh ~/Downloads To make the Anaconda Python Linux installer file executable, run the following command: $ sudo chmod +x ~/Downloads/Anaconda3-2023.03-1-Linux-x86_64.sh To install Anaconda Python on Debian 12, run the following command: $ ~/Downloads/Anaconda3-2023.03-1-Linux-x86_64.sh Then, press <Enter>. Anaconda Python license agreement should be displayed. You can press <Space> to read it. To continue the installation of Anaconda Python on Debian 12, press “Q”. To accept the license agreement, type in “yes” and press <Enter>. By default, Anaconda is installed in the anaconda3/ directory of your login user’s home directory. If you want to install the Anaconda Python in a different location, type it in. Once you’re done, press <Enter>. Anaconda Python is being installed. It will take a few seconds to complete. If you want the Anaconda Python to be initialized when you open a new Terminal app, type in “yes” and press <Enter>. If you want to initialize the Anaconda Python only when you need it, type in “no” and press <Enter>. If you decide to go with this option, read the section on Activating the Anaconda Python Environment Manually on Debian 12 of this article to learn how to activate/deactivate the Anaconda Python on Debian 12. Anaconda Python should be installed on your Debian 12 machine. Checking If Anaconda Python Is Installed on Debian 12 To confirm if Anaconda Python is installed and working on Debian 12, open a new Terminal app. If you configured the Anaconda Python to initialize automatically, you will see the default Anaconda Python environment name base before the terminal prompt as marked in the following screenshot: If you didn’t configure the Anaconda Python to auto-initialize, run the following command to check whether you can access the Anaconda Python: $ conda --version If you can access the Anaconda Python, the version number of Anaconda Python that you installed on your Debian 12 machine should be displayed. Activating the Anaconda Python Environment Manually on Debian 12 To manually activate the default Anaconda Python environment which is “base” on Debian 12, open a Terminal app and run the following command: $ conda activate The default Anaconda Python environment base should be activated. Once you’re done working with Anaconda Python, you can deactivate the Anaconda Python environment with the following command: $ conda deactivate Conclusion In this article, we showed you how to download the Anaconda Python on Debian 12. We also showed you how to install the Anaconda Python on Debian 12 and how to activate/deactivate the default Anaconda Python environment as well. View the full article

Removable USB drives allow you to easily transfer the files from one system to another. When you plug in a USB drive to your system’s USB port, it automatically mounts it. In Linux, it is mounted usually under the “/media” directory and can be accessed using the File Manager. However, in some scenarios, your system may not mount the USB drive automatically after you plug it in and you will be required to mount it manually in order to transfer the files between systems. In this post, we will describe how you can mount a USB drive in a Debian OS in case it is not detected by the system automatically. We use the Debian 11 OS to describe the procedure mentioned in this article. This procedure is also applicable to the previous Debian releases. Mounting a USB drive Step 1: Plug in the USB drive to any of the available USB ports in your computer. Step 2: Once you plugged in the USB drive, check the USB drive name and the file system type drive used. To do this, launch the terminal application in your Debian 11 OS and issue the following command: $ sudo fdisk -l You will receive an output that is similar to that in the following screenshot. Scroll down the output and you will see your USB drive possibly at the end of the output labeled as sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, etc. Note down the name of your USB drive and the file system as you may need it later. In our scenario, the USB drive name is “/dev/sdb1” and the file system is “FAT32”. Step 3: The next step is to create a directory that serves as the mount point for the USB drive. To create the mount point directory, issue the following command in the terminal: $ sudo mkdir /media/<mountpoint_name> Let’s create a mount point directory named USB under the /media directory: $ sudo mkdir /media/USB Step 4: Then, to mount the USB drive to the mount point that you created, issue the following command in the terminal: $ sudo mount <device_name> <mountpoint_directory> In our scenario, we will mount the USB drive /dev/sdb1 to the mount point that we created as /media/USB/. The command is as follows: $ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/USB/ Step 5: To verify if the USB drive is mounted on the mount point successfully, issue the following command: $ mount | grep <USB_drive_name> In our scenario, the command would be: $ mount | grep sdb1 The output in the following screenshot shows that our USB drive /dev/sdb1 has been mounted on the mount point /media/USB. In case the command does not show any output, it means that the device is not mounted. Step 6: To explore the mounted USB drive, move inside the mounted directory using the cd command: $ cd /media/USB/ Now, you can navigate the directories in the USB drive in the same way as you do with the other directories in your file system. To list the files in the USB, use the ls command. You can also access and explore the USB drive through the File manager of your system. Auto-Mount the USB Drive in Debian 11 You can also auto-mount the USB drive when it is plugged into the system. To do this, edit the /etc/fstab file in a text editor using the following command: $ sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following entry at the end of the file, replacing the /dev/sdb1 and vfat with your USB device name and filesystem: /dev/sdb1 /media/USB vfat defaults 0 0 Then, save and exit the text editor. Now, run the following command to mount all the devices: $ mount -a This command mounts all the USB drives that are added to the /etc/fstab file but have not yet been mounted. Also, the next time you restart your system with a USB drive plugged in, your USB drive will be automatically mounted. Unmounting a USB Drive If you no longer want to use the mounted USB drive, you can unmount or detach it. However, before attempting to unmount it, make sure that there are no other operations in progress on the mounted USB drive. Otherwise, the drive won’t detach and you’ll get an error message. To unmount the USB drive, type umount followed by the mount point directory or the device name as follows: $ sudo umount <mountpoint_directory> Or $ sudo umount <USB_drive_name> In our scenario, it would be: $ sudo umount /media/USB If you see no output, it means that all went well and your USB drive is unmounted from the system. You can also confirm it from your File Manager’s left sidebar. To delete the mount point directory, issue the following command: $ sudo rmdir <mountpoint_directory> Conclusion In this article, you learned how to mount a USB drive in a Debian OS and how to unmount it when you need to remove the drive. I hope it will be helpful whenever you need to mount/unmount a USB drive in your system. View the full article

Redis is a popular key value store with extensive features including sharding, clustering, graph, time series and much more which has made it very popular with developers. It has many of the features you need to build a web app and scale it to large scale. In this article we will demonstrate how to install Redis on Debian Linux version 11. Let’s get started… View the full article

Customers can now assess their EC2 workloads running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019 for CVEs and external network accessibility using Inspector. Amazon Inspector is available in the following 14 regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS GovCloud (US-East). View the full article

Developing your website from scratch can be a daunting task. It’s time-consuming and expensive if you are planning to hire a developer. An easy way to get your blog or website off the ground The post How to Install Drupal with Apache on Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides. View the full article

Written PHP, Drupal is a free and opensource content management system (CMS) that enables you to create powerful and elegant blogs or websites. It ships with preinstalled themes, widgets, and other out-of-the-box features that The post How to Install Drupal on Debian 10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides. View the full article