In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FFmpeg on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, FFmpeg is open-source software (also a command-line tool) for transcoding multimedia files. It contains a set of shared audio and video libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. With FFmpeg, you can convert between various video and audio formats, set sample rates, captu...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PHP on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Most of the popular PHP frameworks and applications including WordPress, Laravel, Drupal, and Nextcloud are compatible with PHP 7. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Li...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Docker on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of the application inside the software container. The container allows the developer to package up all project resources such as libraries, dependencies, assets, etc. Docker is written in a Go Programming language and is dev...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MariaDB on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, MariaDB is an open-source, multi-threaded relational database management system, a backward-compatible replacement for MySQL. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The insta...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mozilla Firefox on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, Firefox is the default web browser in a number of Linux distributions. Firefox comes preinstalled in Linux Mint unless you are using Linux mint minimal version. Some of the outstanding features in this release are the new Firefox Privacy Protection Report and a secure password ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Google Chrome on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, Google Chrome is the official Google browser that is available for almost all platforms. Google Chrome is not an open-source browser itself, but it is based on the Chromium browser which is available in default Linux Mint repositories. It is a secure and easy-to-use browser. Thi...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, Apache is the most popular and most used HTTP web server in the world. Apache is an open-source, cross-platform, powerful, stable, reliable, and free web server providing features that can be extended by a wide variety of modules. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Java on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, Java is a programming language and computing platform. It was first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Many programs and scripts require Java to run, but usually, Java is not installed by default on a VPS or Dedicated Server. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of L...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nginx on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, Nginx is a powerful web server software that can be used on your server. It is also known for its high performance and low memory usage which will allow fewer resources to be used but getting the job done efficiently. A popular setup is to use it as a proxy for Apache, which can then ser...