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I planned on creating a VM with the latest version of Ubuntu on it, which currently is 22.10. This VM is going to be used in a future post about Flatpaks. Since I’m creating this VM, I decided to document the process on Proxmox as well as how to access the VM through an app like Remina for example. Let’s go ahead and jump into setting up this Ubuntu VM on Proxmox....
Hopefully, you have been following along with Part 1 and Part 2 of the Creating a Linode Linux VPS series. If not, be sure to go back and check out the previous 2 parts of the guide to get up to speed. In part 3 we will be installing a package called fail2ban on our Linode Linux VPS, which will help to protect our VPS from unauthorized access attempts. Particularly brute force attacks....
Installing software is a core function of any operating system, pacman, the package manager built into most arch based Linux distributions such as Manjaro Linux serves this purpose well. It is a powerful command-line utility that everyone who uses an Arch based Linux distro should be familiar with. If you prefer a GUI over using the command line, you can also use pamac, which comes pre-installed typically. Pamac also allows you to handle Flatpaks and packages from the AUR repository, which is a nice bonus....
For someone who writes documentation all the time, screenshots play a big role in the documentation process. In my humble opinion, for Manjaro and other Linux distributions, Spectacle takes the cake when it comes to screenshot utilities. Spectacle is actually part of KDE, which is how I was first introduced to it on the Manjaro Linux KDE edition. However, Spectacle can run outside of the KDE desktop environment. I still use Spectacle for every screenshot, even on my i3 window manager setup of Manjaro....