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03 InstallingUbuntuServer

The document provides guidance on completing chapter summaries, an upcoming assignment, virtual machine configuration for a project, and basic information about Ubuntu server and common Linux commands like sudo, ping, and apt-get.

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Chapter Summaries and Reading

• Some new reading for near future, particularly in


preparation for Project 2. If you have not finished any
chapter summaries for last night, be sure you do so soon
• As a general rule, you are advised to complete them
sooner, rather than later.
• That way, you will not end up, at the semester's end, with a
large amount of unfinished chapter summaries to
complete.
• Be aware also of Assignment 1, due on February 1, 2018

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Project 1 Reflect
• Ask yourself some questions:
o Is your VM in the correct location, with the right specs?
o Is your OS installed in the specified manner?
o How comfortable are you with the setup process? How quickly
can you do it?
• Be sure you are logging diligently and keeping
progress backed up:
o Snapshots
o Backups of VM files
VMWare and Virtualization
• VMWare is virtualization software
• Virtualization software is software that simulates
or emulates something else
• VMWare emulates a working computer with
o Hardware
o Operating system
o Software configuration
o File system
VMWare and Virtualization
•A virtual machine is software configuration that,
when run inside hardware, virtualization software
acts as if it is a physical machine
• These virtual machines work just like real machines,
even though they run inside VMWare
• VMWare allows one machine to pretend to be
another

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VMWare and Virtualization
• Since you can create many virtual machines for each
VMWare installation, each virtual machine has a unique
name
• Here, the virtual machine name must be the team name
• For example, itvm23-2b

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Ubuntu Server
• We are installing Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distribution based
on Debian Linux
• Development of Ubuntu is led by Canonical, a
company based in the Isle of Man in Great Britain
http://www.canonical.com
• Check this company out. What do they do besides
Ubuntu, if anything?
Ubuntu Server

• A new Ubuntu version is released every 6


months, and the number is composed of the
year and month of its release
o So when was version 16.04 released?
• LTS stands for "Long Term Support"
o An LTS version will be supported for 5 years after its
release
o A new LTS version is released every 2 years
Ubuntu Server
• One of the reasons for Ubuntu's success is its
package manager
• If you type in a command that is not installed,
Ubuntu will suggest packages that would install the
command
o Why might this be useful?
o What are some systems you have dealt with that
lack such a feature?
o Are there any drawbacks?
Hostnames
• The hostname is the name by which a computer
is known on the network
• Every networked machine must have a hostname
• All the Windows machines in this lab have
hostnames
• Your virtual machine will also be on the network,
so it needs a hostname too
• The hostname must be the team name
Some Linux Commands
• sudo
o The most important account on any Linux machine is root
o The setup and configuration of any machine must be done
using the root account
o root is powerful and, therefore, dangerous

o In Ubuntu, access to the root account is blocked, so to


administer an Ubuntu server, you must use the sudo command
o The first account created by the installer is on the sudo-ers list
and can run sudo
Some Linux Commands
o When a file or command is restricted, use sudo rather than
changing permissions!
o Here is the format for sudo :
sudo LINUX_COMMAND
• ping
o The utility ping is a network tool
o It is used to test whether a particular machine is reachable
over the network
o ping does this by sending a series of test packets to an IP
address or a domain name
Some Linux Commands
• apt-get
o To obtain new software packages or to update existing
ones, Ubuntu uses a technology called Advanced
Packaging Tool (APT)
o When administrating even your own OS, let alone an entire
server, you will quickly make friends with this command!
o You access this technology through the apt-get
command
o apt-get can only be run by root, so you must run sudo
to use it
Some Linux Commands
• apt-get
o APT uses an online database of existing software packages
and all the software those packages depend on
o apt-get uses a local copy of this database, which must be
updated periodically using this command:
sudo apt-get update
o After updating, you may wish to upgrade existing
packages:
sudo apt-get upgrade

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