In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PostgreSQL on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, PostgreSQL is an open-source, relational database system that uses SQL to store and scale complicated workloads. This database system dates back to 1986, introduced as part of the Postgres project at the University of California at Berkeley. Ever since, there has been 30 years of acti...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Grafana on Fedora 36. For those of you who didn’t know, Grafana is open-source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. You can either install the open source version or the enterprise version. Both options would be free at the point of ins...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is a popular in-memory key-value store that can be used as a NoSQL key-value database, message broker as well as a caching solution. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with radius...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FFmpeg on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, FFmpeg is a free and open-source command line tool for transcoding multimedia files. The core of this tool consists of the command line FFmpeg which processes the audio and video files. It supports a variety of audio/video codecs, including H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AAC, OPUS, and others,...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install KDE Plasma on Fedora 36. For those of you who didn’t know, KDE is a well-known desktop environment for Unix-like systems designed for a lightweight, fast, smooth environment with superior performance. By default, Fedora 36 comes with the GNOME desktop environment preinstalled. If you have installed the Gnome edition and now want to change your ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ansible on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Ansible is a free and open-source automation tool sponsored by Red Hat. The tool is designed to automate cloud provisioning, OS deployments, etc. It runs on many Unix-like systems and can configure both Unix-like systems as well as Microsoft Windows. It includes its own declarative lan...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is an open-source database frequently used as a cache. Unlike other databases, Redis stores data in memory, making it significantly faster. Redis is extensively known for its broad support, high performance, high availability, and flexibility. This article assumes you have at leas...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Snap on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Snaps are containerized software packages that are simple to create and install. They auto-update and are safe to run. And because they bundle their dependencies, they work on all major Linux systems without modification, Besides that unique advantages that may make it the right choice fo...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MariaDB on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MariaDB is a popular, free, and open-source database management system commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP. It uses MySQL as its primary storage engine, but it is also lightweight, secure, and features in-memory ACID transactions. This article ass...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MySQL on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MySQL is an open-source, cross-platform, and one of the most widely used Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) and distributed by the Oracle Corporation. MySQL has been in production use for over 20 years and is considered one of the most secure and reliable database systems. Th...