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Old release source.list for Ubuntu 8.10

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Hi all

As such Ubuntu 8.10 is no longer used but incase you need to use it and you are facing issues with updating the same the problem lies in sources.list file which resides under /etc/apt/sources.list

Keep a backup of the old file and than replace the content of the old one to the one below.

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘backports’
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical’s
## ‘partner’ repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner

#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main restricted
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security main restricted
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security universe
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security universe
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security multiverse
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security multive

Now try apt-get update and it should work. Let me know if you still face issues.

Njoi

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Install ruby 1.9, rails 3.2, mysql 5.1 on ubuntu 10.04

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Hey all

Now most of us are working on rails 3.2.X I thought of posting about how to configure the same along with mysql server 5.1 on a Ubuntu server.

As always the first step will be to install essentials utilities.

Prerequisites

apt-get update
apt-get install aptitude
aptitude install build-essential

Now some prerequisities for ruby

sudo apt-get -y install libc6-dev libssl-dev libmysql++-dev libsqlite3-dev make build-essential libssl-dev libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev

Now we will move to step #2

Install Ruby 1.9.2 from source

so first download the source using

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p290.zip

than install unzip using

apt-get install unzip
unzip ruby-1.9.2-p290.zip
cd ruby-1.9.2-p290
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
sudo make && sudo make install

Now check if ruby got installed properly or not using ruby -v command it should show you ruby 1.9.2p290

Install mysql 5.1
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1

Install Rails and essential gems
sudo gem install mysql2 rails rack rake mysql

Doing this if you get an error about UTF-8 just run the following command

export LC_ALL=”en_US.UTF-8″

I guess thats all now create your rails app using

rails new new_rails_app -d mysql

Later if you want to configure it using Apache visit my previous post on

http://blog.dhavalparikh.co.in/2012/06/deploying-rails-app-using-apache-and-passenger-on-ubuntu/

Let me know if you face any issues in any of the steps above and I shall be happy to guide you.

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Deploying rails app using apache and passenger on ubuntu

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Hey all

If you want to use apache to deploy your rails app than passenger has made your task really easy.

I assume that you have already installed apache if not do it using

sudo apt-get install apache2

Now follow these steps below and get going.

First step it to install passenger gem using

sudo gem install passenger

Once done the next step is to install the apache2 module for passenger using

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module.

I will prompt you with an option. Select #1

When you do this it will start compiling the files and will prompt for errors if any. Like when I did it for the first time I was asked to installed a couple of missing lib files required to configure along passenger. Example

apt-get install lib-curl4-openssl-dev

apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev

apt-get install libapr1-dev

apt-get install libaprutil1-dev

If every thing is installed file it will ask you to add few lines to your httpd.conf file.

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.13/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.13
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

Once thats done. You will again need to add few more likes to your httpd.conf file which is actually setting up DocumentRoot for you app. will looks something like


ServerName www.yourhost.com
# !!! Be sure to point DocumentRoot to ‘public’!
DocumentRoot /somewhere/public

# This relaxes Apache security settings.
AllowOverride all
# MultiViews must be turned off.
Options -MultiViews

Make sure you replace the DocumentRoot with a valid path.

So the final conf file will look like this

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.13/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.13
PassengerRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby


ServerName www.domain.com
# !!! Be sure to point DocumentRoot to ‘public’!
DocumentRoot /var/www/app/public

# This relaxes Apache security settings.
AllowOverride all
# MultiViews must be turned off.
Options -MultiViews

Once done close your file and restart apache using

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

go you your url and check if it works. If not let me know I shall guide you but I think there should not be any issues.

Isn’t that really simple? Yes it is. Njoy Rails.

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Ubuntu boots into terminal with no xstart and readonly file system

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Hi all

If you face this weird problem where your Ubuntu machine starts in terminal mode with no xstart option. try the following commands.

Try to first scan your system using fsck if that doesn’t work or it get stuck after few % try the next step.

type Xstart on the command prompt and press enter. still no success?

try apt-get update and if you see that your file system is read-only. Try the commands below

First of all shutdown your system using

shutdown -r now -F

once restarted try to remount your root partition using the following command

mount -o remount,rw /

If none of the above method works. Insert a Live Ubuntu CD. use GUI tool to scan your system by opening disk utility from the following path.
System > Administration > Disk Utility

Hope this solves your problem. If it doesn’t do post a comment and I shall try to help you out.

Njoi

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solve no such file to load — openssl error

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Was updating one server with rails 2.2.2 to rails 2.3.8. I upgraded ruby from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 and also rubygems to 1.3.4 version from a source. When i did ruby script/server to start the server I got this error no such file to load — openssl

After a 15 mins R&D i found that this usually happens on an Ubuntu machine (which it was in my case). The solution is as follows

First install libssl using

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Than go to the source of ruby and go to the following path

cd ext/openssl

Run the command one after the others.

ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install

Now try to do ruby script/server again……and boooooooom! solved.. Even after trying this you are stuck let me know I shall help you out.

Thanks

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Install VNC server on Ubuntu Server

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Hi all

sometimes VNC is really useful when you want to access the remote server. Though every thing can be done via command prompt but sometimes a GUI is useful (Atleast I find it useful).

Now if you want to do that here are the steps you need to follow. As you know that most or all servers dont come with Gnome installed. So thats the first step you need to do

Start with the following command

sudo apt-get update

Than install the Gnome-Core components using

sudo apt-get install gnome-core

Now install a virtual desktop using

sudo apt-get install vnc4server

Now setup a password to login using the following command. It will prompt to setup a password and verify it

vncpasswd

Than run the vnc server using

vncserver :1

Now before you proceed kill it once using

vncserver -kill :1

Now open the config file from .vnc/xstartup or ~/.vnc/xstartup

using nano .vnc/xstartup (I perfer nano you may use vim or vi)

Than uncomment the line which says

unset SESSION_MANAGER

And add sh to the line below it like this

exec sh /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Exit the file and run the command as below

vncserver :1 -depth 16 -geometry 1028×1024

Than download tightVNC from http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html

connect using ip:1 (:1 is for the vnc server window)

You might see a dialog box with error and a delete option. Click delete and done 🙂

You now have GUI access to your server.

You may want to install synaptic using

apt-get install synaptic

Thats all.. Hope this article helps. If you get stuck do write to me.

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