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In some cases, you’ve forgotten the MySQL root password, or it has mysteriously changed. In this post, we will reset the MySQL root password in Linux by starting MySQL with the –skip-grant-tables option. Note Running MySQL with the —skip-grant-tables option…
With a bootable Ubuntu USB stick, you can: Install or upgrade Ubuntu. Test out the Ubuntu desktop experience without touching your PC configuration. Boot into Ubuntu on a borrowed machine or from an internet cafe. Use tools installed by default…
Lately I’ve been working on an application for which the releases are published on GitHub, and I wanted to use PowerShell to always downloads the latest release. It turned out that downloading the artifacts for a specific version is easy,…
Lately I’ve been working on an application for which the releases are published on GitHub, and I wanted to create an install script which always downloads the latest release. It turned out that downloading the artifacts for a specific version…
Sometimes, it would be awfully convenient to grab the installer for the latest release of your favorite GitHub project directly from the command-line. We can access a particular release with a URL like (The part after tag/ is what we…
The purpose of this post is to show how to check the CentOS version of your Linux system. It’s possible to do this from either command line or GUI. Knowing your CentOS version will give you some insight into how…
# cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.10 (Final) In some cases, when trying update CentOS 6 with yum update command getting error: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Setting up Update Process Determining fastest mirrors YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not…
While compiling PHP from source on CentOS server, we get the error below: checking for icu-config… no checking for location of ICU headers and libraries… not found configure: error: Unable to detect ICU prefix or no failed. Please verify ICU…
checking if we have a C++ compiler… no configure: error: C++ compiler g++ does not work or no compiler found Probably means you’re missing the g++ compiled at all, which isn’t installed. sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ # yum…
While compiling PHP from source on CentOS server, we get the error below: checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg… yes checking for png_write_image in -lpng… yes If configure fails try –with-xpm-dir=<DIR> configure: error: freetype-config not found. The root of the problem…