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How To Install Ubuntu 16.04 On Windows 7

This post will, quickly, run through how to create a Minimal Server Install using Ubuntu xvi.04. It also only takes a short time, taking between 7 to 20 minutes to install depending on your hardware and the number of times you have run through it. I observe it an platonic mode to endeavour out and learn how to install Ubuntu in various configurations. I too use a virtual machine running on Virtualbox every bit this allows me to throw information technology away without messing well-nigh with real hardware.

The virtualbox configuration I will be using is:

  • Type: Linux
  • Version: Ubuntu (64-bit)
  • Memory Size: 1Gb
  • Hard disk: 8Gb Dynamic
  • Processor: ii
  • Network: Bridged Adaptor
  • Kick Source: ubuntu-16.06-server-amd.iso

I use a minimal Server Install every bit the basis of nigh all my guides as that is what I start out with apply when creating new machines.

we will so have a known starting place and a good foundation when playing around with different installation types. Information technology is generally unproblematic to add extra functionality and services to it.

Choose the language yous want to employ for the installation GUI.

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So select that y'all want to install Ubuntu.

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Choose the language that volition be installed

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Select your location

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I select No at the Notice keyboard option every bit I am using a UK keyboard and information technology is simpler to select the options from the next few screens.

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Add a host name, I tend to apply a proper name to remind me what I an doing with the car. And then for this post I will use examination-server.

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Add a default user, I use fred equally information technology is simple to type 🙂

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Add together a password for the user. Something simple as this is a test machine and we will mostlikly exist typing information technology a lot while experimenting.

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No point encrypting the users abode director with this install. But something you could try out afterward.

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Set the time zone. This is the time zone you desire to exist displayed by the new server. For me it usually defaults to the right one. It is not the time zone it will employ internally. Linux uses GMT/UTC for that by default.

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Deejay partitions. If this is not the fist time yous are doing an installation on a disk y'all will run into the side by side screen. The first time through it does not announced.

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I unremarkably use Guided – Use entire disk when experimenting. But this is an expanse you will want to spend some fourth dimension playing effectually with and trying out different combinations. The ii screen prints below show the differences between a new disk and a deejay with an OS on already.

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On the virtual disk I am using there is only one disk. So not much to do here.

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Write the changes to the disk.

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The next flake takes a minute or then to partition and format the disk and then install an initial kick organisation, earlier moving on to installing the bodily software we want.

We will be installing from the iso or DVD and then there will non be a HTTP proxy to configure.

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What type of update are we going to allow the arrangement to use.

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Tnhe select the initial packages. I just select standard organisation utilities and OpenSSH server.. This gives the minimum you can utilise for well-nigh occasions so only add the extra services or functionality equally you require it using apt-go.

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At that place is a longer interruption hither as the minimal server is installed and configured.

You will definitely desire GRUB installed or your Minimal server install will not boot. 🙂

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One more little suspension while some services go configured. And so the installation is consummate and fix to exist booted the first time.

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Once rebooted you can update ALL the software with the usual commands:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-become dist-upgrade        

The update will be pretty quick less than five minutes in all and information technology will update all the software to the latest in one go. There is No multiple checking and installing, configuring and rebooting.

That is all there is to a Minimal Server Install. It should use nearly 1.4 GB of the 8GB storage we allocated on the virtual machine. This is far quicker and simpler than installing Microsoft Windows. Windows can take hours to practice the initial update 🙁

Adding MATE

If you lot would like to convert this minimal server into a desktop with MATE. Just add the following:

sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras mate-themes \              lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter ubuntu-artwork update-managing director        

One last tweak and we tin reboot. Create the lightdm config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with the post-obit ii lines under the heading [SeatDefaults]. This will requite yous a basic login/greeter for your desktop.

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf        
[SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter user-session=mate        

If you desire to enable automatic logins for a user you lot can also add the lines that get-go auto login, adjust the to be your own user proper noun. The resulting file contents should be

[SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter user-session=mate autologin-user=            autologin-user-timeout=0                  

In one case that is finished y'all tin reboot and you will be presented with a graphical login prompt or automatically logged in depending on what y'all setup.

Fix for GVIM

If similar me you also use gvim when y'all run it from the terminal you will see warning nearly a number of packages missing.

Gtk-Bulletin: Failed to load module "gail" Gtk-Bulletin: Failed to load module "atk-bridge" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "topmenu-gtk-module"        

Yous can remove these messages by installing the following:

sudo apt-get install libatk-adaptor libgail-mutual topmenu-gtk2 \      libtopmenu-client-gtk2-0 libtopmenu-server-gtk2-0 libtopmenu-client-gtk2-0 \      topmenu-gtk3 libtopmenu-client-gtk3-0 libtopmenu-server-gtk3-0 \      libtopmenu-client-gtk3-0        

Source: https://blogging.dragon.org.uk/ubuntu-16-04-minimal-server-install/

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