I want to change my Ubuntu OS's downloading configuration so that it downloads software from a local area repository. How can I do this? I'm using a virtual machine
you should prepare your local repository and bring deb and deb-src in
/etc/apt/sources.list
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I need to install Mysql-server in an Ubuntu 18 machine which do not have any internet access. There are plethora of instruction material exist on this this subject but all they require Ubuntu machine to be online.
One such documentation can be available here (quite comprehensive though)
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-18-04
Any help on offline installation of Mysql-server will be highly helpful.
I suggest you follow this guide on how to use apt-offline. https://linoxide.com/debian/install-debian-packages-offline/
As a general guide:
You start by having apt-offline installed on both PCs, this is done by default on the desktop releases, but can easily be installed by just downloading the .deb package for your release from the packages.ubuntu.com website: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/apt-offline/download
Then create a signature that can be put onto another PC that'll do the downloading/fetching updates and make a note that we also need mysql-server
apt-offline set offline-servers-state.sig --install-packages mysql-server
You can then use this signature on a PC connected to the internet using the same tool to check for updates and/or download the required files into a zip file
apt-offline get --bundle zip/file/location/bundle.zip offline-servers-state.sig
Once downloaded you can put this .zip back on the offline server to install the packages
apt-offline install zip/file/location/bundle.zip
You can visit https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ from a computer that can go online.
Then, select your OS and version
Download DEB Bundle on a computer that can go online. Move the downloaded file internally to your system that cannot hit the Internet.
Your downloaded file will be a .tar. Use command tar -xvf filename.tar (See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tar-extract-linux/ for command).
You will get a new directory. cd that-directory will get you in that directory. You will see a bunch of .deb files.
Install the deb files one by one using sudo apt-get install filename.deb depending on what you want to install. Other commands to install deb files can be found in this discussion https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt.
I want to use zabbix latest version. However, windows agent is missing for zabbix 2.4.7
http://www.zabbix.com/download.php
Please suggest what can be done to get windows agent
If the Windows agent is not available on the official download page, you can check it out from the official repository. There are precompiled agents available for Windows for each release. For instance:
$ svn co svn://svn.zabbix.com/tags/2.4.7/bin
This will give you a directory with precompiled Zabbix 2.4.7 agents for Windows, both 32-bit and 64-bit.
You can always find the latest precompiled Windows binaries inside the full sources package:
just download the archive under Zabbix Sources section here:
http://www.zabbix.com/download.php
Untar the archive and you would find Windows .exe files under bin folder there
Alternatively, you can resort to using this unofficial but very helpful project:
http://www.suiviperf.com/zabbix/index.php
That always has the latest Windows binaries for Zabbix wrapped in msi or exe installer for convenience
I have a Mercurial repository (on Bitbucket) with some code (Java) and I want to do CI builds on a cloud-based Jenkins server (at Jelastic, running on CentOS). My problem is that I haven't been able to do a proper installation of Mercurial on the Jenkins server.
The Jenkins build fails with the following message:
ERROR: Failed to clone https://bitbucket_jenkins_user:some_password#bitbucket.org/repo_owner/my_repository because hg could not be found; check that you've properly configured your Mercurial installation
Setup information
It's a private Mercurial repository, hosted at Bitbucket
In Bitbucket I have set up a Service to trigger the Jenkins build, after a Push has happened
I have defined a specific bitbucket jenkins user in my Mercurial repository, it has only read rights and it logs in using simple https authentication
Jenkins runs on a Tomcat 7, hosted in a Jelastic cloud environment, on CentOS 6
The Mercurial plugin was installed through the Jenkins interface, by Manage plugins
The build is configured as being triggered remotely (by the service defined in Bitbucket)
Build results are the same when started manually and when triggered from a push to the repository
When I first did this I was under the impression that installing the Mercurial plugin in Jenkins would be enough, that it would also install the needed Mercurial binaries to be able to connect to the repository and get the code. I have realized that I was wrong and that on the Manage Jenkins / Configure System page I need to specify my Mercurial installation.
Questions
Is it possible to create a Mercurial installation without ssh access and doing a "yum install mercurial"?
In the Jenkins interface, what can I specify when choosing the "Install Automatically" option?
When defining an installer, I have experimented with the "Extract zip/tar.gz" option, but what can I write as the "Download URL for binary archive"?
Jenkins also offers an installer option of "Run command". What kind of commands could that be, maybe a "yum install ..." or "rpm ..."?
Since my server is cloud based, getting ssh access is a paid add-on which I would prefer to avoid. But if that is my only option I will of course do it, thereby getting access to running commands on the server. However, running "yum install mercurial" on Centos seems to only give the 1.4 version of Mercurial. Current version when I write this is 2.6.3, would I need to download the sources and compile it myself or is it possible to get that as a binary for Centos somewhere?
The Mercurial Plugin page has a section on how to use the Auto Installation options to install Mercurial using ArchLinux packages.
"The plugin supports generic tool auto-installation methods for your Mercurial installation, though it does not publish a catalog of Mercurial versions. For users of Linux machines (with Python preinstalled), you can use ArchLinux packages. For example, in /configure under Mercurial installations, add a Mercurial installation with whatever Name you like, Executable = INSTALLATION/bin/hg, Install automatically, Run Command, Label = linux (if desired to limit this to slaves configured with the same label), Command = [ -d usr ] || wget -q -O - http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/mercurial/download/ | xzcat | tar xvf - (or …/x86_64/… for 64-bit slaves), Tool Home = usr, and configure a job with this installation tied to a Linux slave."
see https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Mercurial+Plugin
I can't install the VirtualBox Guest Additions in the latest build of Google Chrome OS. When I run the installer, I get the following error:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.8 Guest Additions for Linux.........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.1.8': Read-only file system
tar: /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.1.8: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
What do I do now? Can I mount the filesystem in read-write mode? Does the Lime build support the guest additions? I'm using the Vanilla build.
Host OS: Mac OS X Lion (10.7)
Guest OS: Google Chrome OS Vanilla from http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
VirtualBox version: 4.1.8
So someone on the VirtualBox IRC channel irc://chat.freenode.net/#vbox told me that the guest additions won't work on Chrome OS.
After trying the suggestion from #sarnold, running mount -oremount,rw /, I was told Unable to determine your Linux distribution
If you want to try remounting the filesystem as read-write, the command is:
mount -oremount,rw /
But there might be a good reason for / to be mounted read-only. I doubt the VirtualBox guest tools care where they are installed, so if you just unpack the archive using tar or ar or whatever is necessary, you can probably install them somewhere that is mounted read-write and configure them appropriately.
If you don't mind using dev mode, I was able to run a parrot os vm with qemu and kvm on a pixelbook. I used the change kernel flags script from crouton repo, then installed qemu and kvm packages normally for my debian 9 crouton chroot. Virt manager doesn't work, but I can make a hard drive image with CLI and boot up a vm with CLI and it all works, albeit it is a bit slow even with kvm. Probably cause even a pixelbook has low resources compared to a normal laptop.
This is a pretty dumb question. I am trying to install Fedora on a virtual machine (the open source VirtualBox seems like the best option). I downloaded it from somewhere, and I have the rpm instead of the iso. If it were just the ISO I could simply mount it using virtual clone drive and then I would be able to install it on virtualBox, because it would think that it is a cd. But how do I do that with an RPM? I get the impression that an RPM is simply a packaging format like a .rar or .zip but how do I install this thing on virtualBox? Find some kind of unrapper for an rpm and then install? Or is there a simpler way.
Sorry, but you're not going to be able to install Fedora onto a VirtualBox VM from the RPM file. There's nothing out there that will produce an ISO from the RPM, but that's the only type of file your VM will be able to mount as a install medium. You'll have to download the ISO.