Dual Boot Ubuntu with Windows
Changes to Windows
(to be completed)
Bringing Ubuntu Up To Speed
Steps
- add new computer name (everton) to all /etc/hosts files that may need to talk to the new machine
- run mkremlog.sh ajh@everton on all remote machines
- update and copy over .bash_profile, .bashrc
- update colour entries in ~/Computers/Sources/Setup/colours.xlp
Software to install
See also The Ubuntu Page
- exiv2
- lizardfs-client
- firefox
- make
- python2 and 3, including python3-tables
- tex (install texlive-full)
- vlc
- xsltproc
- zoom
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dateutil (python3 -m pip install python-dateutil)
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Tasks
Hostname
Depending how you got to this stage, the hostname might need
fixing. To do this, simply edit (as superuser) the file
/etc/hostname to the correct value.
# vi /etc/hostname
Files
load basic files from backup. These should include:
~/.bash_profile
~/.bashrc
~/bin/*
~/lib/emacs
~/.emacs
SSH
install sshd
Emacs
Install my preferred editor Emacs
# apt-get install emacs
Apache
Install the web server Apache
# apt-get install apache
Enable the actions, cgid and userdir modifications.
# a2enmod actions cgid userdir
In the file userdir.conf,
change the <Directory /home/*/public_html> line
containing AllowOverride to be just
AllowOverride All
You also need to add index.xml into the
DirectoryIndex list in the same file.
install the XSLTPROC package
# apt-get install xsltproc
Assuming all the relevant files have been copied across from
backup, you should now be able to access the web server from a
browser.
Gotchas
- Apache2 does not enable user directories
automatically. To do this, you need to install the
userdir mod (above).
- Because I also run a cgi script driven by special
instructions in the .htaccess file to perform the XML to
HTML translation, I also must install the actions and cgid
modifications. The latter, in particular, gives very
cryptic error messages - simply saying that it cannot find
the requested file.
