I previously posted about OwnCloud 8.0 setup exactly 13 months ago (1 year and one month). Now, the OwnCloud development team has announced the release of OwnCloud 9 yesterday. Let me show you again how to set up OwnCloud 9 Community Edition on your Ubuntu server.

What’s New

1. Collaboration

Groups now have access to collaboration tools, such as global activity streams and version rollback, along with the ability to post comments and add tags. Users with file access may post comments on a file, and others will be notified when this is done. Learn more about collaboration tools.

2. Federation

The concept behind Federation is to allow users to have shared files and folders even when using different servers.

3. Scalability

The OwnCloud 9 release features a new storage API that allows for deeper integration with storage solutions and an updated sharing code, designed to handle more shares with more users.

Minor Enhancements

• Standalone updater
• Code-signed package

Install and Setup

Add OwnCloud repositories.

For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

wget -qO - https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list

For Ubuntu 15.10

wget -qO - https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_15.10/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_15.10/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list

Now, let’s install OwnCloud.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud

After installation, open http://YOURSERVERIP/owncloud and go through the normal setup instructions. It’s highly recommended to choose a data directory outside the webroot /var/www folder. By default, OwnCloud uses the sqlite3 database, but for better performance, use MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

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