Installation Ubuntu Lucid Lynx#
Table of Contents
(also used for Maverick Meerkat and Natty Narwhal)
Installed software#
- Plain install from live CD (created USB startup disk for that)
- installed extra packages:
- openssh-server
- htop
- sensors-applet
- flashplugin-installer
- gpsbabel
- sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-source sun-java6-plugin (first synaptic => repos => other repos => enable lucid partner)
- checkgmail
- download and install eclipse
- play an mp3, and you get prompted to install the required codecs....
- vlc and few more "ugly" and "bad" gstreamer packages
- subversion
- acpi
- libdvdcss2 from http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb
- nethogs (show per process bandwith usage )
- iftop
- mysql-client mysql-server
- libnss3-tools (certutil)
- chmsee (viewing windows help files , .chm)
- guake terminal
- virtualbox-ose virtualbox-guest-additions
- acroread
- wammu (phone management)
- XSane (scanner software)
natty narwhal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexeftimie/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-sysmonitor sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk
Kernel compile#
he Because my HP 6830s laptop has a buggy DSDT, I have to change that. Since Linus decided that kernels no longer accept custom DSDT's I have to recompile the kernel to get this done.I found a useful link here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1341580
And afterwards another one here : http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/05/05/how-to-compile-a-ubuntu-lucid-kernel/
So, what I did is downloade the kernel source from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/, and :
dpkg -i /home/metskem/Downloads/linux-source-2.6.35_2.6.35-22.34_all.deb sudo apt-get install fakeroot kernel-wedge build-essential makedumpfile sudo apt-get build-dep linux sudo apt-get install qt3-dev-tools libqt3-mt-dev kernel-package mkdir src cd src tar xjf /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2 cd linux-source-2.6.32/ cp -vi /boot/config-`uname -r` .config make xconfig .......
click in left pane on ACPI, and then double click in right pane on custom DSDT and fill in the fullname of your custom dsdt (for example /home/metskem/dsdt/dsdt.hex.
Then we'll continue:
export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=3 # put both intel cores to work :-) time fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=dh kernel-image kernel-headers | tee /home/metskem/kernel-compile.log
see log
....... real 66m15.850s user 93m31.899s sys 14m9.749s
Now install the kernel :
metskem@gneisenau:~/src$ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh_2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom_i386.deb (Reading database ... 151079 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh 2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom (using linux-image-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh_2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... Ok, aborting, since modules for this image already exist. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh_2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . Running postrm hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub. Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dirtyharrykernel Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda1 Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda3 Found Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition (7) on /dev/sda6 done Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh_2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom_i386.deb metskem@gneisenau:~/src$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh_2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh. (Reading database ... 151079 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh (from linux-headers-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh_2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... Setting up linux-headers-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh (2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh-10.00.Custom) ... Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common 2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh
And finally :
update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh update-grub
For the last part (that takes over an hour) I created a small shell script
Miscellaneous#
Eclipse fails with
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid qualifier: 11+drm33 at org.osgi.framework.Version.validate(Version.java:188) at org.osgi.framework.Version.<init>(Version.java:92) ....Solved by adding -vmargs -Dorg.osgi.framework.os.version=2.6.32.11+drm33.2dh01 to /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse.ini.
Also added -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni to eclipse.ini to get subversion working.