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azraelx401
September 2nd, 2006, 12:22 AM
*****PLEASE READ BEFORE INSTALLING UBUNTU CENTER*****

I'm gonna write my own directions on how to install the Ubuntu Center because I notice alot of the same issues going on. I too ran into the phtml problem and the mysql username problem. But if you follow the below hopefully it will work for you.

1. First thing you wanna do is login as root. If your a new to ubuntu just message me and I will tell you how to set up a password to root.

2. Uncomment or add the following 2 lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe

(you can do that however you want to, either from the terminal or with your favorite editor.)

From the terminal then run

sudo apt-get update

3. Make sure you have everything uncommented out in your /etc/apt/sources.list file and then run

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-gd php5-mysql id3v2 imagemagick libgd2-dev libgd2 php-auth


4. Now you can actually skip this step if you choose to because the default password for root is nothing. But i suggest that you download MySQL Admin from Add/Remove application.

mysqladmin -u root -p password YOURNEWPASSWORDHERE


5. Now you need to download Ubuntu Center.

wget —no-check-certificate https://files.bountysource.com/file/download/137/ubuntucenter-alpha-01.deb


6. After it downloads install it.

sudo dpkg -i ubuntucenter-alpha-01.deb

If you followed all that then you should be fine. But remember to login as root because when your on step three root will actually download some of the other files you need to get apache and mysql working correctly.

7. Now that everything is installed just go to http://127.0.0.1/center and you should see Ubuntu Center. When logging in if you skipped step 4 just type in root for username and leave the password empty. Just click submit or whatever it says. Then you should be prompted to create a username and password. Once your done with the install you will be using your own IP address to login http://yourip/center (the ip will not be 127.0.0.1 after your all set up)

*****ATTENTION******
Don't leave your root password empty it is a security risk. Download MySQL Admin and change it in there.


Hopefully this has helped people that are having problems with this. I've install Ubuntu Center a bunch of times and this is how it worked best for me. If your still having any problems please let me know and if anyone has any other suggestions on the install please post them.

TTT_travis
September 5th, 2006, 09:59 PM
Thank you for the instructions, when I release a new version installation will hopefully only consist of a few commands. I admit my packaging efforts were bad as were the instructions. Promise I will make it better.

azraelx401
September 6th, 2006, 12:30 AM
It's not a problem. I like the Ubuntu Center package, it's a cool feature to have.

Aurelius
September 12th, 2006, 07:20 PM
Is there any other way, short of logging on as root, to install this successfully? I'd really rather not do that.

TTT_travis, I'm not trying to rush you, but I'm wondering if you had a rough ETA for the next version? If you've got it planned for sometime in the next month or so, I might wait before installing.

azraelx401
September 13th, 2006, 07:44 AM
Is there any other way, short of logging on as root, to install this successfully? I'd really rather not do that.

TTT_travis, I'm not trying to rush you, but I'm wondering if you had a rough ETA for the next version? If you've got it planned for sometime in the next month or so, I might wait before installing.

I haven't been able to install it any other way. I don't really see the big deal with logging in as root but, you can try with out doing that and see what happens. I just posted what worked for me.

TTT_travis
September 16th, 2006, 11:30 PM
Is there any other way, short of logging on as root, to install this successfully? I'd really rather not do that.

TTT_travis, I'm not trying to rush you, but I'm wondering if you had a rough ETA for the next version? If you've got it planned for sometime in the next month or so, I might wait before installing.

Hey, I honestly haven't had time to work on it lately, I have been a little backed up on work and school. I will get something to you guys soon though, the first debut of Hive isn't going to be a huge upgrade from Ubuntu Center, it will have partial theme support and partial plugin support. I had been working on making everything kind of unified.

I will see what I can do!

Sorry for the delays ;) and thanks to everyone who has supported the project through dreamhost registrations etc.

Frak
October 7th, 2006, 03:05 PM
Is this just for breezy or is it for dapper too.

Aurelius
October 7th, 2006, 08:55 PM
Works on dapper fine - I didn't have to install as root, but you do have to remember to set a root password for MySQL (not the same as setting a root password for Ubuntu - see the MySQL documentation).

jdackle
October 18th, 2006, 11:25 AM
Trouble installing the .deb!!!

I downloaded the file (had to click on the link BTW, wget wouldn't get it even after I edited the filemane which is cropped in the given text-line).

But dpkg doesn't want to install it...?
It said dpkg-deb --control exited with error status 2 (whatever that means!).

Thanks

arsenik
November 1st, 2006, 10:50 PM
Wow this worked like a charm! Thanks a ton.

hankvreeland
December 4th, 2006, 05:32 PM
Please tell me how to set up password as root.

Hank

Step
December 4th, 2006, 05:35 PM
sudo passwd root

Is that the command you are talking about?
Hope it helps!:-k

scannerdarkly
December 5th, 2006, 04:59 AM
Please tell me how to set up password as root.

Hank

how to setup the root password in general?

go to System>> Administration>> click Users and Groups then you'll probably get asked to type in your password then the Users and Groups window will show up. Click on the box that says "Show all users and Groups". Then highlight root and click properties. Under password put the password that you want and click ok. pretty easy if that's what your asking.

speeddemon8803
February 23rd, 2007, 04:20 PM
The only problem in logging in as root is simple...its VERY easy to screw something up! when trying to do something as root either use gksu or sudo DO NOT LOG IN AS ROOT! I myself thought hey what could I possibly do? Hmm....lets see...corrupt a file system, delete the linux kernel, and...yeah...so dont log in as root!!!!!!! If you try to log in as root through the login window I will not help you, im sorry, but thats what gksu and sudo are for, no need for root.

jman92
February 26th, 2007, 04:53 PM
i keep get an error message

Package php5-gd is not installed.

how do i install it