Install GUI in Ubuntu Server
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We have already discussed how to install ubuntu 9.04 LAMP server .If you are a new user and
not familiar with command prompt you can install GUI for your ubuntu LAMP server using the
2 options
1) Install desktop Environment
2) Install Webmin
1) Install desktop Environment
First you nee to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in
/etc/apt/sources.list file once you have enable you need to use the following command
to install GUI
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
The above command will install GNOME desktop
If you wan to install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons
like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel use the
following command
sudo aptitude install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
If you want to install light weight desktop install xfce using the following command
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
If you want to install KDE desktop use the following command
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
2) Install Webmin in Ubuntu
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern
web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more.
Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd,
and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.Currently There is no
Webmin package in the Ubuntu repositories.This tutorial will explain how to Install
Webmin in Ubuntu Jaunty
You can install webmin for your server web interface to configure apache2,mysql,FTp
servers and many more.Now we will see how to install webmin in Ubuntu 9.04
Preparing your system
First you need to install the following packages
sudo aptitude install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime
libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
Now download the latest webmin using the following command or from here
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.470_all.deb
Now we have webmin_1.470_all.deb package install this package using the following
command
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.470_all.deb
This will complete the installation.
Using the Webmin APT repository
If you like to install and update Webmin via APT, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file on
your system
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add the line
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
Save and exit the file
You should also fetch and install my GPG key with which the repository is signed, with
the commands : cd /root
wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc
You will now be able to install with the commands
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install webmin
All dependencies should be resolved automatically.
Ubuntu in particular don’t allow logins by the root user by default. However, the user
created at system installation time can use sudo to switch to root. Webmin will allow
any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges.
Now you need to open your web browser and enter the following
https://your-server-ip:10000/
Now you should see similar to the following Screen
After login if you want to configure Apache,Mysql server you need to click on Servers
on your lefthand side you should many servers are ready to configure
This is very Easy to configure most of the servers and Enjoy your new Ubuntu Jaunty
LAMP Server.
Installing Webmin on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid)
Webmin installed on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid
I had some trouble installing Webmin 1.510 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server (aka Lucid). The problem is that Webmin uses a deprecated Perl module (a wrapper around Digest::MD5 for users of an
ancient MD5 library) and both Debian and Ubuntu refuse to put it back into their respective repositories. Entirely within their rights, of course, but not so good for us weekend admins who want
a painless install process.
Okay, so let’s get to work. I’m installing Webmin 1.510 via the remaining Debian packages.
Install the (easy) dependencies
Run this from a terminal. Expect some trouble from ‘libmd5-perl’.
$ sudo aptitude -y install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl apt-show-versions libapt-pkg-perl
You should find an error like this:
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libmd5-perl"
The reason for this is that ‘libmd5-perl’ is persona non grata at both Debian and Ubuntu, as mentioned.
Install the deprecated dependencies
Download the libmd5-perl deb file and install it manually:
Open a browser and get the newest libmd5-perl package (from 2004 – lol)
http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/libm/libmd5-perl/
The likely package is named: libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb
so we download it and install it:
kelvin@example.com:~$ wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/libm/libmd5-perl/libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb
--2010-05-22 19:50:45-- http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/libm/libmd5-perl/libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb
Resolving ftp.debian.org... 130.89.149.226, 2001:610:1908:a000::149:226
Connecting to ftp.debian.org|130.89.149.226|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5700 (5.6K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb'
100%[=======================================================================>] 5,700 30.3K/s in 0.2s
2010-05-22 19:50:46 (30.3 KB/s) - `libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb' saved [5700/5700]
kelvin@example.com:~$ sudo dpkg -i libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package libmd5-perl.
(Reading database ... 50494 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmd5-perl (from libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up libmd5-perl (2.03-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
kelvin@example.com:~$
Install Webmin
The dependencies should all be installed now. We can download the Webmin deb package from Sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin/files/
Use the most recent deb package. In my case it was ‘webmin_1.510-2_all.deb‘
Sourceforge will generate a link for you to use from their web site. My link was:
kelvin@example.com:~$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin_1.510-2_all.deb?use_mirror=cdnetworks-us-1
--2010-05-22 19:53:44-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin_1.510-2_all.deb?use_mirror=cdnetworks-us-1
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://cdnetworks-us-1.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin_1.510-2_all.deb [following]
--2010-05-22 19:53:44-- http://cdnetworks-us-1.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin_1.510-2_all.deb
Resolving cdnetworks-us-1.dl.sourceforge.net... 174.35.19.11
Connecting to cdnetworks-us-1.dl.sourceforge.net|174.35.19.11|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14504260 (14M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `webmin_1.510-2_all.deb'
100%[===================================================================>] 14,504,260 512K/s in 21s
2010-05-22 19:54:06 (664 KB/s) - `webmin_1.510-2_all.deb' saved [14504260/14504260]
kelvin@example.com:~$ sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.510-2_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package webmin.
(Reading database ... 50500 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking webmin (from webmin_1.510-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up webmin (1.510-2) ...
Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://example.com:10000/
as root with your root password, or as any user who can use sudo
to run commands as root.
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
You should now be able to visit your webmin login page on port 10000 (use your own IP number):
http://192.168.0.5:10000/
Ideally, the Webmin gurus will refactor the old MD5 code dependencies, but this seems to work fine for now.
