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Re: [Sheflug] Building the new Linux Box
Tom Burke wrote:
problem was that the motherboard had built-in nVidia GeForce graphics
capabilities, based around GeForce 7, which were not supported following
a default installation. It took me a long time (several hours?) of
research before I identified the correct graphics chip in the
motherboard and how to install support for it in Ubuntu.
System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers should take you to a nice
GUI for installing/enabling nvidia's proprietary drivers which (among
other things) support OpenGL. There is a lot of non-Ubuntu specific
information on nvidia's graphics drivers on the internet, and following
the wring guide could break your xorg.conf.
driver enabled, however, I was left with very low resolution - 800x600
this is probably a product of not using the official Ubuntu method.
I have to confess, at that point I was a bit depressed - about 3 hours
just to get a display working didn't bode well for getting server apps
set up.
(IMHO) Linux does this to you :). I remember having problems like this
with ndiswrapper when I first migrated.
In fact, however, that was the only glitch. Today I've
successfully installed & configured Java, MySQL and Tomcat, with
preferred versions (pretty much) of all of these. With ssh enabled it
means that the machine is now running headless, and I'm connecting to
it via a ssh client on the Windows desktop.
Well done! :)
There are just two areas that I might want to explore further. I'm not
sure about the version of MySQL that I've installed: accessing the mysql
command line tells me that it's version "5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1 (Ubuntu)",
and I'm not sure how that maps onto versions distributed by MySQL
themselves. How do I uninstall an installed package, e.g this tailored
version of MySQL? - preferably from the command line?
sudo apt-get remove mysql
or if you want to remove config files as well:
sudo apt-get --purge remove mysql
also:
sudo apt-get [--purge] autoremove
will remove any packages which are no longer needed after uninstalling
the package which required them.
Joe
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