Category: Operating System

Setting up xserver on Ubuntu 6.06 server

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URLs: http://www.realvnc.com , http://www.ubuntutips.net/node/7

On a plain 6.06 LTS server I wanted to install Xserver to test
something out, so, I did the following. The following is a quick
way of installing xwindows/xserver and accessing via VNC. There
are many places for improvement/customisation etc.

I executed the following command:

apt-get install gdm zenity ubuntu-artwork edubuntu-artwork xubuntu-default-settings gnome2-user-guide gnome-panel nautilus metacity libglib2.0-data libgnomevfs2-extra perl-doc debconf-utils libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg
apt-get install vnc-common xvncviewer

Then ran startx… xwindows started, but, errored about fonts missing.

The following commands covered this:
apt-get install xfonts-base
apt-get install xfs

Starting xserver now works, however, nothings been done to get access to it. To get this done quickly I installed the vnc4server package.

Needed to edit the sources.list apt configuration file to allow the universe repository and ran:
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install vnc4server

Then, to set a password for the VNC server ran:

realvncpasswd

Entered password twice.. this created: /home/robert/.vnc/passwd

Then needed to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Added “Load “vnc”” to the Module section and “Option “PasswordFile” “/home/robert/.vnc/passwd”” to the Screen section.

Started xserver with: startx

This then said:

vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5900
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0

I fired up vnc on my local machine and could connect to the machines IP address & port 5900. (ip:5900) Once entering the password I was presented with the xwindows desktop.

It complained about a few packages missing so I ran the following. Below added a number of applications and removed the edubuntu artwork which I had accidently installed.

apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-applets
apt-get remove edubuntu-artwork
apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment gnome-orca gnome-lokkit

Plesk 8.3 on Ubuntu main IP change

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I needed to change a machine primary IP from one network to another… Not knowing that Plesk 8.3 has a specific way of changing IPs on a machine I manually updated the /etc/network/interfaces file with the systems new IP address details. Infact, probably best that I changed this file manually as Plesk doesn’t appear to have any knowledge of default gateways, so, if I followed the article below I probably would have a machine with an IP address in a different network to the default gateway:

http://kb.swsoft.com/en/943

So probably best to update the IP address manually and follow below:

Once I change the machine into the new network with it’s new IP & default gateway I thought I’d be able to login to Plesk and click on Server->IP Addresses and just refresh for it to pickup the new IP. Instead, when I clicked repair it added the new IP address and left the old one as well… it added the old one as an alias on the machine. I was not able to select the IP in the IP address management area so I couldn’t delete it.

The follow article made it possible for me to delete the IP address from within the CP:

http://kb.swsoft.com/en/237