How to install a Desktop & Webmin on Ubuntu 10.04 Server
How to install a Desktop & Webmin on Ubuntu 10.04 Server
I am new to Ubuntu. Naturally as an IT guy I opted for running the server platform. Not having a lot of experience with the Unix command line since college I wanted to find a way to manage my new LAMP install with some form of GUI. After stumbling around the net for a while I discovered there are several posts and lots of different instructions with pre-requisites surrounding this topic. So I compiled the most stright forward install path to my knowledge.
Login to your Ubuntu server 10.4 and update your server distribution sources.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
Now as a beginner I prefer a desktop environment for things like file editing and browsing the file system. Here are some choices
Xfce (Least resource intensive desktop):
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
Gnome (Ubuntu Default Desktop):
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Gnome Minimal (No apps or Openoffice):
sudo apt-get install –no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
KDE:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
These options will take a long time, however, once complete you will need to restart your system
sudo shutdown now
To start the desktop login and enter command
startx
You now have Ubuntu server running in a desktop GUI
Now we are ready to install Webmin to manage Apache, MySQL, and PHP
Open a terminal
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin_1.510-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.510-2_all.deb
If you encounter any errors do the following
sudo apt-get install -f
Congratulations. Ubuntu Server 10.4 with Webmin is now installed and available at:
http://hostname:10000/
Thank you!