Category: Linux

  • Plesk, Nextcloud, and my shortening patience

    Plesk, Nextcloud, and my shortening patience

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    Dougie Richardson
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    I’ve a self-hosted Nextcloud installation which is frankly a pain, there’s a good chance updates will break everything. Plesk is a fairly intuitive interface for self hosting but is best described as non-standard Ubuntu – it handles PHP oddly in particular. Try running any of the php occ commands in it’s built-in ssh terminal and…

  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS OneDrive

    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS OneDrive

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    Dougie Richardson
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    I’ve not had much time to play around with the latest release but this is cool – OneDrive Nautilus integration. Settings > Online Accounts > Microsoft 365, leave everything blank and hit “Sign in…”. Web page opens to authenticate and then you can mount OneDrive in Nautilus.

  • Multipass cloud-init

    Multipass cloud-init

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    admin
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    Multipass is pretty useful but what a pain this was to figure out, due to Ubuntu’s Node.js package not working with AWS-CDK. Multipass lets you manage VM in Ubuntu and can take cloud-init scripts as a parameter. I wanted an Ubuntu LTS instance with AWS CDK, which needs Node.js and python3-venv. Save that as cdk.yaml…