linux-config.md

Install Packages

Packages are like drivers of your linux system

You must have specific packages installed to be able to run specific commands

Update server packages

Before any installation, you must update your packages

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Main Packages

sudo apt install curl iptables build-essential git wget lz4 jq make gcc nano automake autoconf tmux htop nvme-cli pkg-config libssl-dev libleveldb-dev tar clang bsdmainutils ncdu unzip libleveldb-dev  -y

Python3, pip

## Python 3.8 Pip, Python3 Install
sudo apt install -y python3-pip
sudo apt install pip
sudo apt install -y build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev

Go

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
curl -L https://go.dev/dl/go1.22.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzf - -C /usr/local
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source .bash_profile
go version

NodeJS , npm, yarn

# Check Nodejs Version
node --version
# if 18, skip nodejs steps

# Delete Nodejs old files
sudo apt-get remove nodejs
sudo apt-get purge nodejs
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo rm /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

# Install Nodejs 18
NODE_MAJOR=18
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_${NODE_MAJOR}.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node --version

# Install npm
sudo apt-get install npm
npm --version

# Install yarn
curl -sSL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install yarn -y

Docker, Docker-Compose

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

echo \
  "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

# Test Docker
sudo docker run hello-world

lsof, ufw

# ports in-use
lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN

# What process is using port 80
lsof -i :80

# Open ports for external usage
sudo ufw allow <port>

# Example: Open port 3000
sudo ufw allow 3000

htop

Manage your linux components (CPU, Memory, Swap, Tasks, ..)

# Install
sudo apt install htop

# Run
htop