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Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Chip Wilder — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:01:11 -0000

Followed this great guide to install the 9.04 64 desktop GUI on the 9.04 64 Server edition. I am a Linux novice and having trouble getting the nvidia driver to install on the server edition. I did a fresh install of the desktop version without the server and was able to install the nvidia driver without any difficulty. I suspect the problem is with the server "multiple" monitor/terminal ports but can not get it to work properly. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Kevin — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:15:22 -0000

"Change dhcp to static and add the lines shown below. Of course you need to use your IP address, netmask, and gateway instead of mine."

How do I find those values, and what do they all mean?

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

newbie — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:21:28 -0000

thank you so much for putting this together :)

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Badruddin Pitter — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:29:10 -0000

This Article was very helpful for a newbee like me to install UBUNTU server along with Desktop GUI capability. I had to research little bit on SUDO commands like for saving a file (:wq) which i didn't knew.

I vote 5 Stars to this article. I am surely going to go through you next artcile to setup a website.

Thank You So Much.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

adam — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:30:07 -0000

Sam,
Thanks so much for your writing. Its clear and concise and doesn't leave me guessing about what i just read or feeling dumb for not following someone else' meanderings.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Teymoor — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:25:08 -0000

Please help me.
I have installed buntu server 8.10 on my pc and reboot it. But the screen not readeable and it contain green line and it'a text not clear.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

rActive — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:17:43 -0000

Thanks for the clear concise guide

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

dstevens — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:14:31 -0000

Great guide.
I have attempted to install Linux with little success more times than I can remember.

After using your tutorial, I can 'see' it from other machines on my home network, view web pages on the Apache2 web server and use phpmyadmin. Cgi-bin is installed & working too.

I am running 7.04 Feisty Fawn on a rig cobbled together from an old Intel AL440LX board with a PoweLeap upgrade processor and 384M RAM. It is a little slow, but not too bad.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Erik — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:11:46 -0000

I am new to Ubuntu and still wet behind the ears when it comes to the Ubuntu server and your post is clear, explanatory and precise. Thank you for what you do.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

גרעין — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:45:24 -0000

This really is a good guide. One can see it helped alot of people.
Take on with the good job!

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

carlos — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:48:08 -0000

excellent tutorial...thanks a bunch. this is exactlly what i was looking for

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Zigian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:17:07 -0000

Great guide. Got everything up and running just fine and I'm a total Linux noob. This was my first install of Ubuntu in any form. Your guide was very easy to follow. The only problem I had was with the Vi editor, grr that thing is confusing if you don't know how to use it. Other than that, no problems. Thanks!

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

John Isah — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:13:26 -0000

thanks your writeup was quite useful.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

muba4000 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:16:43 -0000

Thanks it worked.
But whats the difference between ubuntu desktop and server after doing all this
thanks

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

han — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:30:06 -0000

Thank you !!

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Stuart — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:38:10 -0000

*******************FOLLOW UP***********************

After a bit of tinkering managed to get it to ping any IP address - only problem is it still won't update as it can't resolve the hostname. It's a DNS issue but I'm not sure how to deal with it. Suggestions??

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Stuart — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:43:53 -0000

Thanks for an amazing simple to use guide.

I am however having issues with DHCP auto-configuring. It doesn't detect anything on either of my ethernet ports on two different Cat5 Cables (I'm going to try some Cat6 ones on Monday). When I input a static IP in, I can't ping anything. Any suggestions?
Regards,

Stuart

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Sam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:06:22 -0000

@Eric - Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Eric — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:40:49 -0000

Your instructions were exactly what I needed to get in the "front door" and start learning the system. It's amazing how many faqs, forums, people and pages -- many of which seemed very promising at first -- I had to sift through before finding this one. Seriously - there's a secret order of conspiring techies on the web, and while they pretend to offer simple "getting started" advice to potential new users, they're actual ulterior motive is to obfuscate the solution while frustrating, antagonizing and discouraging "outsiders". Fortuntately that's only a joke, but unfortunately it is also the truth. Thanks for not being one of them.
Eric

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Sam — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:06:38 -0000

@Eli - The problem could be several things. One possibility is that the ubuntu repository was simply not responsive when you made the request for files. If this is the case it should work eventually. Another possibility is that you don't have your sources.list file set up correctly. Open /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure that the ubuntu repositories (Main and Universe) are present and uncommented. Do a Google search to learn more about Ubuntu repositories and the sources.list file. I hope this helps.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Eli — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:39:06 -0000

I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 server and am attempting to install the ubuntu-desktop gui. First, when I try to do an update: sudo aptitude update, I get an error message:
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'. When I type this url in a browser, it resolves ok.

When I try to sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop, I get the error msg: cannot find ubuntu-desktop. Any suggestions?

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Sean — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:09:02 -0000

I too am a linux newbie and found this useful. However, it may be useful to describe how long each installation step may take. Installing the gui on my side took quit a while.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Alan Barber — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:33:40 -0000

Huge thanks Sam - this was perfect and worked without any errors at all. My only problem being a newbie to Linux was understanding HOW to use VI. Thankfully Google didn't let me down! Great post.

Regards,

Alan

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Sam — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:11:21 -0000

@zedd, Rod - Thanks for the support. I just posted some new Ubuntu guides. Use the search box and keyword "Ubuntu Guide" to find them or go to our Ubuntu category. Subscribe to our RSS feed too.

Re: Ubuntu LAMP Server - Setup Guide with Desktop GUI

Rodd — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:15:53 -0000

What a wonderful website! Your instructions were very easy to follow and I am falling more and more in love with Linux (Ubuntu) by the hour. I can't wait to see what else I can do!