Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Hawkins (cont)

11:00
apt-cacher is speeding up the downloading and installation of the updates. I need to change the sources.list and apt.conf for it to work though. Need to think about a way to speed things up to reduce typing.

11:42
Having a hard time with optional apps...

12:41
Some progress, it seems that the tricky part is managing sources.list
the sources for most of the data appear to be in alternate places...

oh, and I checked earlier, and these are only 32-bit machines...

12:44
tested that the ldap propagation is still happening, it is

need to conifgure lab ldap services

14:05
default alternative for editor set to nano, needs to change to vi

14:30
distracted by trying out kde desktop, then back to ldap

17:13
moved www and installed mat lab and identified machines to be retired
back to ldap

mostly configured
one place that has been useful for installing these optional packages has been
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper

publishing since there will be an outage soon

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