Installing a headless Debian (Linux) server for file storage and other cool stuff [Text]

• Rufus

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  The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

I use a minimal installer, which will download the rest of the installation files - meaning you’ll need an active internet connection. If this installer complains about “missing drivers”, you can install the "non-free firmware" version. If you don’t have a connection yet, you can download the CD-ROM or DVD. With Rufus, you can easily turn this into a bootable USB.

• Webmin

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  Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel

After this, you can choose which components you want to install. Definitely tick "SSH server" and "standard system utilities". We won’t be using a desktop environment, nor a window manager, because we’ll install Webmin to manage our server via a very nice web interface.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• doas

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  A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos

Now, let’s replace “sudo” with “doas”. Type git clone https://github.com/slicer69/doas.git to download doas from Github.

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