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deb Debian

Initial Setup

Add vnyx to sudoers.

Create symlink for /Users/vnyx for compatibility

sudo ln -s /home /Users

Setup vnyx directories

sudo mkdir /usr/local/vnix
sudo mkdir /var/vnix

Install Base

sudo apt install open-vm-tools
sudo apt install git
sudo apt install rsync
sudo apt install mariadb-server
sudo apt install unbound
sudo apt install ldnsutils
sudo apt remove bind9-host
sudo update-rc.d apache2 disable

Installing Desktops

sudo apt install xfce4
sudo apt install task-mate-desktop
sudo tasksel install desktop kde-desktop

Install PHP 7.4

Because 7.3 is latest version on Debian 10

sudo apt -y install lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates wget
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install php7.4

Install htop

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
wget http://hisham.hm/htop/releases/2.2.0/htop-2.2.0.tar.gz  <<< check latest version http://hisham.hm/htop/releases
tar xvfvz htop-2.2.0.tar.gz
cd htop-2.2.0
./configure
make
make install

Mail

Setting Up MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) on Debian

sudo apt-get install postfix

sudoedit /etc/postfix/main.cf
Append these lines
relayhost=mail2.vnyx.net:25
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
sudo postfix reload

Add Hard Drive

  • Add drive in VMWare
  • Install gparted or add the partition manually with fdisk
  • Edit /etc/fstab
  • Reboot

Example add 40G drive for VNiX

/dev/sda3   /var/vnix   ext4    defaults    0   2