Normally, when you run the sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade commands all the packages are updated.
But sometimes if the dependencies of an installed package have been changed such that it requires installation of new packages, the installed package won’t be upgraded automatically and you’ll see package kept back error.
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In this post I’ll show how to install and configure Postfix on Ubuntu 16.04 to use Office 365 services like smarthost/mail relay.
apt-get upgrade apt-get update apt-get install postfix sasl2-bin mailutils
sasl2-bin is an API thet implement Cyrus SASL API, and permit to integrate authentication mechanisms in Postfix
mailutils is a simple mail commands that will help testing our configuration. Continue reading
VNC remote access allows one to view remotely and interact with real x displays on Linux box (i.e. a display corresponding to a physical monitor, keyboard, and mouse), and using windows, linux, mac or any other operating system SO where exist a vnc viewer.
To access in Linux Mint I prefer x11vnc instead of the default Vino server or other package. Continue reading
Microsoft surprised the IT world with the announcement about the new MS SQL Server that is able to run on Linux. In this post I’ll show hot to install Sql Server on Debian 8 Jessie.
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install curl apt-transport-https sudo
Add to /etc/apt/sources.list this backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
After that you’ll be able to install jessie-backports openssl
apt-get install -t jessie-backports openssl