How to install GUI in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server
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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 apt-get 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 9.10 server
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 Karmic
You can install webmin as your ubuntu server web interface to configure apache2,mysql,FTp servers and many more.Now we will see how to install webmin in Ubuntu 9.10
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_1.500_all.deb
Now we have webmin_1.500_all.deb package install this package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_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
Once you loggedin you should see similar to the following screen
From the above screen 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 9.10 LAMP Server.
sudo apt get-install gnome
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.
Thanks for your nice webmin notes.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Instead of name try to enter your server ip address
You can find your server ip address using the following command from terminal
ifconfig
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/
Hi
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.
Hi
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.
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Thank you updated article now