JPCDI’s Software Installation Guides

These how-to guides, at least, started off as a personal means of documenting my way through my media server installations. That way I wouldn’t have to hop around the internet near as much, remembering and forgetting what and where.

Plus, working on this helps to keep the documentation and sourcing fresh.

If you have any suggestions for improvements, would like to submit edits, or just want to drop a nice comment, please visit my Software-Install-Guides Github Page and feel free to submit a pull request or an issue.

Some of my older guides have been copied from HTPC Guides. This site was, at one time, a regularly updated site, but hasn’t seen any activity in quite a while.

Table of contents:

• Debian / Ubuntu
  • Chapters
    • APT or DPKG
    • Extra Items
    • User Management
    • Old or Outdated
• Extras
  • Random Ansible Snippets
    • Ansible CLI - Basic Example
    • Pass a List
  • Ansible Random Nuggets
  • Fixing mysql/mariaDB 767 Character Error Code
    • tl;dr
• General Bash
  • Bash Conditional Expressions
    • Breakdown
  • Bash Logging
    • What does it do?
  • Some Basic Linux Commands
    • SSH or Remote Use
    • SSH Keys
    • Restarting the Machine
    • Updating the Apps
  • Bash Logging
    • What does it do?
    • Deprecation of apt-key
    • Using DD for Backup
  • Use grep Output as if-else Conditional
    • Basic Use of grep in if-else
    • So, lets break that down
  • Here Docs
  • pip Requirements File
  • Random Collection of Info
    • Using find to chmod multiple files
    • Using awk to Modify Output
    • Remove text, like Commas
    • Using \ as New Lines
    • Shell Script Location
    • Random Number Generator
    • Using sed to Make Updates
  • Signals and Traps
  • Default Optional Agruments
• Git
  • Local Git Repo Address
    • Viewing the Repo’s Address
    • Background
    • Changing The Address
    • Code Breakdown
    • Final Steps
  • Saving your Git Repo Password
    • OR
    • macOS and 1Password
    • macOS Keys
  • Git –orphan
• HomeLab Change Log
  • Standard Changes
    • After Installation
    • SSH Keys
    • Ansible
• macOS
  • Updating X-Code After Big Updates
    • tl;dr
    • The Story
  • Download Beta Xcode with wget
    • How To
    • Unzipping
  • Other Random Tidbits
    • Local WebPage Wont Load Anywhere!!!
• VirtualBox
  • VirtualBox AutoStart
    • AutoStart.cfg File
    • File Permissions
    • VBoxManage modifyvm
    • Testing
  • VirtualBox Guest Additions
    • Host Machine
    • Ubuntu Server Guest Machine
  • VirtualBox Systemd
• Website Testing
  • Testing your Web Server Configuration
    • List

These docs are no longer updated:

Older, now unused how to's

• Archive
  • Archived Downloaders
    • Transmission [TRANS-HTPC]
    • Alternate Transmission Web GUI
    • OpenVPN [PIA-VPN]
    • NZBGet [NZBGet-HTPC]
  • Archived General Bash
    • Ratom [RATOM-src]
  • Raspberry Pi
    • Boot your Raspberry Pi from an External USB
    • DDRescue
    • OLD Boot Raspberry Pi from USB
  • VirtualBox
    • VirtualBox AutoStart
    • VirtualBox Guest Additions
    • VirtualBox Systemd
  • Web Server Stuff
    • NGINX from PPA
    • Compiling NGINX From Source [NGINX-Copied]
    • NGINX Basic Password Auth
    • Securing NGINX
    • DDClient [DDCLIENT-Source]
    • Certbot WildCard SSL Cert
  • WebApps
    • Radarr Movie Downloader
    • CouchPotato Movie Downloader [HTPC-CP]
    • Tautulli (previously PlexPy) [HTPC-Tautulli]
    • Sonarr Installation [HTPC-Sonarr]