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This article covers the complete procedure of installing Nvidia Drivers on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa system. In fact, Nvidia GPUs (graphics processing units) have exceptional parallel computing potential, much higher than that of CPUs.
How to Install Nvidia Driver via Command Line on Ubuntu?
1. Search for Nvidia Drivers
Begin by Opening the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or search for "terminal" in the Applications menu. Then, Run the following command:
$ apt search nvidia-driver
The output will display a list of available drivers for your GPU.
2. Update the System Package Repository
Before installing the driver, make sure to update the package repository. Run the following commands:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
3. Install the Right Driver for Your GPU
First, Choose a driver to install from the list of available GPU drivers. The best fit is the latest tested proprietary version. The syntax for installing the driver is:
$ sudo apt install [driver_name]
Here, we installed nvidia-driver-340, the latest tested proprietary driver for this GPU, so the command to run would be:
$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-340
4. Reboot the System
Reboot your machine with the following command:
$ sudo reboot
This article covers the process of installing the Komodo Edit on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa system. In fact, Komodo Edit is a free multi-language code editor that supports Python, Perl, Ruby, HTML/CSS, JavaScript and so on.
Main features of the Komodo editing free text editor:
This article covers how to install the FreeIPA on CentOS 8 system. In fact, FreeIPA is a free and open source identity management tool for managing centralized authentication along with account management, policy (host-based access control) and audit.
How to Open Required FreeIPA ports on Firewall ?
FreeIPA uses a number of ports to communicate with its services which must be opened on firewall to allow external connections. You can simply open all the required ports using the service names by running the command below:
$ firewall-cmd --add-service={freeipa-ldap,freeipa-ldaps,dns,ntp} --permanent
$ firewall-cmd --reload
This article covers the process of installing MySQL Workbench on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa system. In fact, MySQL workbench is a GUI tool for managing MySQL database system used by database administrators, database architects and developers to visualize database design.
How to Download and Install MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu ?
1. Update and upgrade your system, before any installation:
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
2. Now you can download and install Workbench with the command:
$ sudo apt install mysql-workbench
This article covers the process of installing LibreNMS on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa system. In fact, LibreNms works and supports protocols such as SNMP, LLDP, OSPF, ARP, CDP, BGP and FDP to auto-discover the network. You can also use LibreNms to monitor many network hardware (such as Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, FreeBSD, Brocade) and even operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD.
This article covers the process of installing Tmux on a Linux Mint 20 system. In fact, Tmux is a popular multiplexer which makes it easy for you to run different applications in separate sessions and switch between them effortlessly.
Tmux is a Linux application that allows multitasking in a terminal window. It stands for Terminal Multiplexing, and is based around sessions. Users can start a process, switch to a new one, detach from a running process, and reattach to a running process.
How to Install Tmux in Linux ?
1. On Debian-based distributions:
$ sudo install tmux
2. On CentOS/REHL:
$ yum install tmux
3. To install tmux on Arch Linux:
$ pacman -S tmux
Once the installation is finished, launch a terminal and type in tmux to start a fresh tmux session:
$ tmux