This is an experiment in which I wanted to see if it is possible to run apache on one server and have www directory in a different server (physical or virtual). I don’t know the possible benefits of such a system or a scenario where this could be helpful, neither am I aware of different ways to achieve the same. But I tried it and am posting the results anyways.

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In this article, I will describe how I went about to install the bare minimum LAMP server using Ubuntu Minimal installation iso. I downloaded Maverick Meerkat version of Minimal CD image from the Minimal CD Image Download Page. You can use the server ISO but you may end up with unwanted packages and you will need to download the whole ~700 MB ISO to start, while Minimal CD is just ~13MB. Also, since the Minimal CD downloads the latest packages from the repos during installation, you need not update immediately further saving data volume.

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If you have installed your system via netinstall or by selecting packages one by one, or if you somehow removed some gnome packages, you may be missing some menu items. I noticed that I did not have some entries in System>Administration menu, namely, “Network”, “Services”, “Time and Date” and “Users and Groups”. I tried to search for them in Synaptic and Apt-file but failed to locate the exact package. So, I did some hit and trial and found the package was “gnome-system-tools”. I just installed it via synaptic and the menu entries were back.

I downloaded deb of VirtualBox beta 1 from the beta packages page of Oracle website and installed it. However, while launching Virtual Machines created with Oracle VirtualBox 3.x (closed source version), I got the following error: Continue Reading

If you are keen about the changes in the next version of Ubuntu, 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), and want first hand experience, you can setup your own live testing environment which boots right from the harddisk. You can of course test the ISOs in Virtualbox, but if your card is not supported for Virtualbox 3D, you won’t be able to test the new Ubuntu Unity interface.

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If you are using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha, you may face compiz crashes. To recover from compiz crash, you can do a Continue Reading

If you have installed Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Alpha 1, you will notice the new Unity interface and hence no Gnome Panel(s) anymore. Since “Run Application” dialog is a part of gnome-panel, it is not possible to enable the same “Run Application” dialog. If you wish, you can achieve that by running the gnome-panel, but this is not the recommended course of action if you wish to keep running unity.
So, the other way to make it work is to use third party run dialogs from repositories. One of the best run dialog is gmrun. It is available in Ubuntu universe repositories. Open up the terminal (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T) and type in the following to launch Synaptic Package Manager: Continue Reading

Unity interface is the default interface in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. It consists of the dock and launchers. However, if you don’t like the dock, animations and the interface as a whole, you can just disable it and login to Ubuntu Classic Desktop.

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I just used zsync to download the latest daily build of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. It features Ubuntu Unity Plugin for Compiz among other changes. Continue Reading

I downloaded nautilux-dropbox Ubuntu deb package from Dropbox Linux Download Page. When I tried to install it via gdebi deb installer in Debian, I got the following error: Continue Reading