Plex is a media center with a server and client applications to play Media files from Laptops, Smartphones, and Smart televisions e.t.c. Plex media server aims at organizing personal media stored on local devices with support for integration with third-party storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box e.t.c.
Is a base utility for configuring your board, divided into four main sections:
- System - system and security settings,
- Network - wired, wireless, Bluetooth, access point,
- Personal - timezone, language, hostname,
- Software - system and 3rd party software install.
The tool needs root privileges to work and can be launched by entering
sudo armbian-config
at the terminal prompt or by clicking to the armbian-config menu item on desktop images.System¶
- Install - installs to SATA, eMMC, NAND or USB. It gives you an option to install the system to more resilient and faster internal or external media. You can also change filesystem type to ext2,3,4 or BTRFS (if supported),
- Freeze - freeze or unfreeze kernel and board support packages, to avoid upgrading,
- Nightly - switch between nightly automated beta and stable builds,
- Bootenv - edit boot environment and alter kernel boot parameters,
- Hardware - toggle board low level functions: UART, I2C, SPI, …
- Switch - switch to/between alternative kernels: default, next, dev,
- SSH - reconfigure SSH dameon. Permit root login, toggle ssh key and mobile phone authetication,
- Firmware - execute apt update and upgrade to update your system,
- Zshell - toogle stock BASH and ZSH with Oh My ZSH and tmux
- Enable - toggle desktop on and off (on desktop images)
- Lightdm - change login managers from none to lightdm (on desktop images)
- RDP - toggle remote desktop from Windows (on desktop images)
- Overlayroot - toggle overlayroot (Ubuntu images)
- Minimal - install minimal Armbian XFCE powered desktop,
- Default - install Armbian XFCE powered desktop with web browser and extras.
Network¶
- IP - choose to select dynamic or edit static IP address,
- Hotspot - create or manage wireless access point. If your wireless adapter is recognized by a kernel, then armbian-config utility auto selects best mode on the selected device. It can detect 802.11n, 802.11a and 802.11ac. It also knows how to handle some special Realtek adapters,
- IPV6 - toggle IPV6 for apt and system,
- Iperf3 - toogle network troughput tests daemon,
- LTE - 3G/4G LTE modem management
- WiFi - manage wireless networking. Connect with Wifi network. You can create multiple wireless connections at the same time. They are managed by Network Manager,
- BT install - pair Bluetooth devices without PIN code,
- Advanced - edit network config manually,
- Forget - disconnets and clear all wireless connections.
Personal settings¶
- Timezone - change timezone,
- Locales - reconfigure language and character set,
- Keyboard - change console keyboaard settings,
- Hostname - change hostname,
- Mirror - change to backup APT repository mirror in case of troubles,
- Welcome - toggle welcome screen items.
Software¶
Software installation menu provides automated install of the following packages.
- softy
- TV headend(IPTV server)
- Syncthing(personal cloud)
- SoftEther VPN server(VPN server)
- Plex(Plex media server)
- Radarr(Movie downloading server)
- Sonarr(TV shows downloading server)
- Transmission(torrent server)
- ISPConfig(WEB & MAIL server)
- NCP(Nextcloud personal cloud)
- Openmediavault NAS(NAS server)
- PI hole(ad blocker)
- UrBackup(client/server backup system)
- Docker(Docker CE engine)
- Mayan EDMS(Document management system within Docker)
- MiniDLNA(media sharing)
- Monitor = simple CLI monitoring
- Diagnostics = create a summary of logs and upload them to paste.bin
- Toggle kernel headers, RDP service, Thunderbird and Libreoffice (desktop builds)
Sources¶
Skype for Linux beta 5.3 was released on May 31, 2017. It is a proprietary software, built on the web-based Skype client. This tutorial is going to show you how to install Skype on Debian 9 Stretch via the official Skype Linux client repository.
What’s new in Skype for Linux beta 5.3:
- Use ‘libsecret’ instead of ‘gnome-keyring’ in order to store your credentials
- Fetch large contact lists by page
- Bugfixes and improvements
For open-source and privacy-concerned users, the Wire app is a good alternative, but there are many people who for some reason can’t quit Skype.
How to Install Skype for Linux Beta on Debian 9 Stretch
We can install Skype on Debian 9 Stretch from the official Skype Linux client repository. Please note that Skype for Linux beta currently only works on 64-bit system. 32-bit users can send a request in Skype community.
So here’s how to install it. Open up a terminal window and switch to root.
Run the following command to add Skype Linux client repository to Debian 9 Stretch system.
Then use the following two commands to fetch and install Skype public key so that APT package manager can verify the integrity of downloaded packages from this repo.
Since this repo is using HTTPS protocol, so we also need to install the
apt-transport-https
package.Now all left to do is to update our software source and install
skypeforlinux
package, which is around 50 MB of size.Once installed, you can start Skype for Linux beta from application menu or use the command below.
When a new Skype for Linux version comes out, simply run
apt update
and apt-upgrade
command to update to the latest version.I hope this tutorial helped you install Skype on Debian 9 Stretch.
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