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Can't install GUI with 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop', WHY?

Asked by AIC-IT

We have a new IBM X3400 Dual core Dual Xenon with 4 X 250GB in RAID and 8GB RAM. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition is installed.

We want to use Ubuntu to drive this as a File Server at a School with inherited security and prefer a Windows type GUI.

We have installed SAMBA but cannot get the Windows desktop to install using "sudo get". It says it cannot firn the file, we have ried various install options found on the web but none work.

We want to interface with a Windows 2003 Domain Controller and XP workstations.

Can you guide us on how to solve this problem?

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Are you behind a firewall and need to connect to the web with a web-proxy? If so, did you configure the proxy configurations for apt?

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AIC-IT (dave-aic) said : 		#2

Yes we are behind both and no we did not install the proxy at install. Do you think if we do this it will work?

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

The proxy can be configured by adding the following into the file /etc/apt/apt.conf. hostname and port must be substituted by the information for the proxy.

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{
  http
  {
    Proxy "http://hostname:port";
  }
}

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#4

Alternatively you can use:-

export http_proxy=http://proxyhost:proxyport/

And if you have a windows proxy server that requires authentication then:-

export http_proxy=http://windowsdomain\\windowsuser:windowspassword@proxyhost:proxyport/

Then issue the apt commands in that shell. You can make that permanent but that would be a little dangerous having your password hardcoded somewhere, so best to type it in.

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