Install MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 and derivatives

MySQL is a popular database engine in LAMP environments. This guide shows how to install MySQL Server 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 and manage its service with systemctl.

MySQL is probably the most popular database engine and, together with Apache and PHP on Linux, forms what is commonly called a LAMP server.

In this post we will see how to set up a MySQL Server 5.7 database server on Ubuntu 16.04. Continue reading “Install MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 and derivatives”

Prepare Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 with NVIDIA for local AI

If you are going to run AI models locally on Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 or 26.04, the first step is making sure the system detects the NVIDIA card correctly.

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Add a static route with netplan in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04

How to add a temporary static route with ip route and a persistent route with netplan in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04.

In this post we see how to add a static route in Ubuntu using ip route and netplan.

The ip route command is useful for adding a temporary route. To keep the route configured persistently in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04, we will use netplan.

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