Before we begin, let's initiate a terminal session at the Linux server. This is going to be the server on which we will install the OCS-NG server. It is recommended to start an encrypted shell such as SSH. You may even work locally on the server, if possible.
We are going to look into two individual ways of installing the OCS-NG management server. You may pick either. The first installation modality will be via RPMs. Ever since OCS-NG has become popular and recognized in the open source community, several Linux distributions have started to include it into their package repository. The advantage of this is that they are officially supported, fully maintained, and kind of guaranteed to work.
While installing software, when there's an RPM, it takes barely one line of command, and the process is fully automated. The second modality that we will cover is slightly longer, as the user is required to download and extract the latest...