There is no official subversion binary distribution for SUSE Linux. However, it is pretty easy to compile subversion on your SUSE Linux server. If you have an older version of subversion which you wish to remove before installing the latest, do the following cleanup: Run Yast2, go to Software->Software Management,…
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When using Yast2 to install or modify my SUSE Linux server, it will prompt me to insert the original installation CDs. This is bothersome if my SUSE Linux server is not easy to access physically. To avoid having to deal with CDs, we can copy the contents of the installation…
Leave a CommentApache Tomcat is a Java Servlet container which can be run as a standalone HTTP server. The instructions below will walk you through installing and getting Tomcat working on your Linux box. I’m doing this on a SuSE Linux server but it should be applicable to other Linux flavors like…
12 CommentsNow that I have my tikiwiki running on a Linux AS4 server and having felt the sting of having to recover it, I have incentive to create an automated daily backup of the mySQL database. I have decided to do the backup using a simple shell script and schedule it…
8 CommentsRecently, I had to rebuild a tikiwiki server (on a Linux machine) with only a mysql database backup image. I quickly found that the backup image of a tikiwiki does not contain the version of the tikiwiki software, which is very necessary; otherwise, the database schema won’t match. Fortunately, I…
Leave a CommentIf you forget your Linux root password, you can maybe reset it if you have physical access to the machine. Go to the Linux server machine. You will see the login prompt Press Ctrl-Alt-Del (three keys at the same time) The machine will reboot. If Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn’t work, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.…
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