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The text is a concise tutorial that walks users through installing the UFW firewall on Arch Linux via pacman, enabling it as a systemd service, and setting sensible default policies to block inbound traffic while allowing outbound connections. It then demonstrates how to open only the necessary ports—such as SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, or any custom service—and verify the active rule set with verbose status output. Optional steps include turning on UFW logging for dropped packets and troubleshooting common pitfalls like forgetting to reload after rule changes or running conflicting firewalls simultaneously. Overall, the guide emphasizes a minimal‑configuration approach that quickly secures a desktop Arch installation without unnecessary complexity.

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The guide shows how to enable Manjaro’s “community” repository (if needed) and then install Remmina together with its RDP, VNC, SSH (and optional SPICE) plugins in a single pacman command. It recommends turning on OpenGL rendering by editing ~/.config/remmina/remmina.pref for smoother remote sessions on capable GPUs. After installation you verify the client by creating a quick RDP profile and connecting to a test host, checking firewall access if it fails. Finally, you can remove unused protocol plugins to save space and keep Remmina up‑to‑date with regular pacman -Syu updates.

Guides 11792 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The passage is a brief tutorial for setting up UFW on an Arch Linux system, covering installation with pacman and activation as a systemd service. It explains how to apply default policies that deny incoming traffic while permitting outbound connections, then shows the steps needed to open specific ports such as SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, or any custom services and to check the active rules using verbose status output. Optional instructions include enabling UFW’s logging for dropped packets and addressing common mistakes like neglecting to reload after rule changes or running another firewall at the same time. Overall, it promotes a minimal‑configuration method that quickly hardens an Arch desktop without adding unnecessary complexity.

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The guide walks through installing the ImageMagick binaries and development headers (imagemagick + libmagickwand-dev) on Ubuntu 22.04, then fetching the imagick source from PECL by installing php‑pear, php‑dev and build tools. It shows how to compile the extension with phpize, configure, make and sudo make install, followed by creating a version‑specific ini file that loads “imagick.so” and restarting PHP‑FPM if needed. Afterward you verify the installation with php -m | grep imagick or a short test script that prints ImageMagick’s version string. Finally, it notes that PECL extensions aren’t upgraded by apt, so after major OS or ImageMagick updates you should rebuild imagick (e.g., via pecl install imagick).