Comments on: How to install GUI in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:49:45 +0000

Thank you updated article now

By: ahmad

ahmad — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:15:27 +0000

1. what distribution based ubuntu server edition with gnome desktop default ?
2. how to install gnome desktop from live cd/iso ubuntu desktop ?

By: douglas c.

douglas c. — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:48:58 +0000

I installed Webmin in my ubuntu 9.10 server when i try to open a web browser to enter the https//my system ip:10000/, the info this time is

Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 192.168.0.153.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

By: douglas c.

douglas c. — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:39:04 +0000

I installed Webmin in my ubuntu 9.10 server when i try to open a web browser to enter the https//my system ip:10000/, the info is giving me is Error-Bad Request
this web server is running in SSL mode. Try the URL https://douglas.local:10000.

By: GammaTwo

GammaTwo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:37:59 +0000

Regarding --no-install-recommends, it’s an apt-get option, so it’s better to call:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

as explained in my blog http://www.gammatwo.com/2010/04/22/light-ubuntu-install-basic-gnome-desktop-on-ubuntu-server/

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:34:06 +0000

Instead of name try to enter your server ip address

You can find your server ip address using the following command from terminal

ifconfig

By: gcs

gcs — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:16:45 +0000

I got karmic LAMP server installed. Added SSH and it works (great!)
Installed webadmin per above and it installed normally. When launching the web site in firefox I get this message: “Firefox can’t find the server at [myservername]”

I’m a noob, please be gentle.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:05:13 +0000

I followed all the instructions above without any errors. Webadmin works great, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to start the gui from the console. I’ve searched and tried startx, /etc/init.d/kdm start but had no luck. How do you start the desktop? I hate being a noob.

By: Smokey Mc. Pot

Smokey Mc. Pot — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:24:45 +0000

I installed 9.10 and then kubuntu-desktop.
Since then I couldn’t boot to console and just start it, it kept booting into kde.

I was looking in the rc.d dir’s/files but found that it was all relocated.

After some digging into upstart (which is new to me)
I found that if if I edit /etc/init/kdm.conf
and comment out the start stop lines.
Then kde would only start when I manualy start the job.

It works for me, I just don’t know if this is the right way.

Any thoughts on that ??

Thanks, Smokey Mc. Pot

By: JohnH

JohnH — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:01:25 +0000

Thanks Chris, I saw that reference. I did a complete re-install of the server, only this time I chose the LAMP version. I am having trouble fully understanding how to set up Apache, etc., to ‘find’ my index web page. I am just about to abandon the project. I downloaded Jamie Cameron’s book “Managing Linux Systems with Webmin” and followed that as much as I understand it but never get success.
I really like using Ubuntu, but I do get frustrated in getting info when things don’t work.
However, I wont give up entirely, just the server project.
Thanks for your help.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:16:42 +0000

Hey John,

Had the same problem and --without-recommends worked. So it looks like for the new 9.10 the command is “sudo aptitude install --without-recommends ubuntu-desktop”. Another nice tip in case you install GNOME (or something) you can go right into the terminal and install a different one from there.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:32:30 +0000

I have had difficulty, through lack of knowledge mainly as a newbee, in getting things going for a single, small family history website. Apache seems to be working but not I think the name server. However, since I recently closed down my system, on reboot I cannot get back into Webmin at all. I have even tried reinstalling Webmin.
When I enter https://……:10000/ in Firefox, I get this error message.
“Secure Connection Failed.
An error occurred during a connection to ……..
SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
(Error Code:ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)”
Please help.
Thanks

By: Chad McCullough

Chad McCullough — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:28:03 +0000

Great post! I’m a cli person, myself, but my wife is wanting to learn how to manage our server at home. Having a GUI desktop for her will be very helpful.

By: Kaithy Aravind Reddy

Kaithy Aravind Reddy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:05:50 +0000

Thanks for your nice webmin notes.

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:35 +0000

Nice howto!

I had to change the aptitude option --no-install-recommends into --without-recommends. I used a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 install with aptitude 0.4.11.11.

Also installed the Webmin and that really works well for me.

Thanks.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:54:38 +0000

sudo apt get-install gnome