kingqueen
September 11th, 2013, 12:00 AM
Good evening. I would really appreciate some help if possible.
I have a kimsufi 2g dedi (http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi_2g.xml) server. It runs various things, but I would like to install a desktop environment and VNC so I can use it as a remote desktop. It has Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" on it.
I have done sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, but when I do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop I know it will get as far as attempting to install xulrunner, and will then hang.
I've tried several times, and tried leaving it for an hour - still it gets stuck at the same place. Re-installing the whole server from scratch doesn't help as the same happens each time. From installation, even before creating a standard user account, I SSH in as root and do apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt-get install ubuntu-desktop - and it hangs on installing xulrunner.
Ctrl-C doesn't do anything. If I kill the SSH session, reconnect and log in, I have to delete the lock files before it will let me use apt-get - and then it hangs again when I try to install ubuntu-desktop.
I know xulrunner isn't included in later versions of Ubuntu. Is there any way I can tell apt-get to not install it as part of ubuntu-desktop? Or some other way round it? I have done some substantial configuration on the server now and I don't want to have to re-install from scratch with a different installation image. But I know what will happen if and when I do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop - it'll hang forever on installing xulrunner, apt-get will get in a messed up state and ubuntu-desktop will be in an unusable, half-installed state.
I am somewhat at a loss. Any assistance anybody can bring would be very gratefully received.
Thank you!
I have a kimsufi 2g dedi (http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi_2g.xml) server. It runs various things, but I would like to install a desktop environment and VNC so I can use it as a remote desktop. It has Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" on it.
I have done sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, but when I do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop I know it will get as far as attempting to install xulrunner, and will then hang.
I've tried several times, and tried leaving it for an hour - still it gets stuck at the same place. Re-installing the whole server from scratch doesn't help as the same happens each time. From installation, even before creating a standard user account, I SSH in as root and do apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt-get install ubuntu-desktop - and it hangs on installing xulrunner.
Ctrl-C doesn't do anything. If I kill the SSH session, reconnect and log in, I have to delete the lock files before it will let me use apt-get - and then it hangs again when I try to install ubuntu-desktop.
I know xulrunner isn't included in later versions of Ubuntu. Is there any way I can tell apt-get to not install it as part of ubuntu-desktop? Or some other way round it? I have done some substantial configuration on the server now and I don't want to have to re-install from scratch with a different installation image. But I know what will happen if and when I do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop - it'll hang forever on installing xulrunner, apt-get will get in a messed up state and ubuntu-desktop will be in an unusable, half-installed state.
I am somewhat at a loss. Any assistance anybody can bring would be very gratefully received.
Thank you!