I have come across several installation instructions that include the command deb. But it appears that this command is not available on my installation.
Where can I get this command? Is there a work-around?
When I start or reboot my Ubuntu Server I get a lot of messages starting this or that but towards the end I get a message Unknown id: /home/kevin/riak-1.2.1/dev/dev1/bin/riak. I checked the <path> and it exists and is the same path as in the error message. I am thinking that this error comes from init.d and at this point in the boot up process the /home/kevin part of the path doesn't exist yet or there is a permission problem. Here is a copy of the ls -l output with an appended pwd:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kevin kevin 0 Nov 8 12:08 ls.txt
-rwx------ 1 kevin kevin 8531 Sep 25 23:22 riak
-rwx------ 1 kevin kevin 17710 Sep 25 23:22 riak-admin
-rwx------ 1 kevin kevin 2400 Sep 25 23:22 search-cmd
/home/kevin/riak-1.2.1/dev/dev1/bin
The script that I suspect is at fault has these lines:
su - /home/kevin/riak-1.2.1/dev/dev1/bin/riak -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS" || return 2
su - /home/kevin/riak-1.2.1/dev/dev2/bin/riak -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS" || return 2
su - /home/kevin/riak-1.2.1/dev/dev3/bin/riak -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS" || return 2
su - /home/kevin/riak-1.2.1/dev/dev4/bin/riak -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS" || return 2
If it is a permission problem please explain why the system cannot execute/read these files.
I have installed Ubuntu Server on a VM and given it 100 Gb of disk and 2Gb of RAM. I also installed GNOME. My primary reason for the installation was to install a bunch of different NoSQL databases and check them out. Since my "normal" platform is Windows 7 as was recommended in "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks" it seems easier to have a VM running Linux than having all the utilities to make Windows look like Linux.
Anyway now that I have it installed I am finding that the apps run from the GNOME shell are very slow. Maybe it is just GNOME or Ubuntu-desktop but the applications seem very slow. If the slowness is attributed to the GUI how do I remove them? Once I remove them how is the best way to install various app software? As the only reason that I installed the GUI stuff was to be able to browse to a site and download. If that is possible without the slow GUI then that may be one other reason to remove GNOME and Ubuntu-desktop.
Sorry if these questions are newbie type questions but as Linux is not new to me, the whole Ubuntu distribution is.
Thank you.
I have installed a Ubuntu Server and executed the command sudo command to install the ubuntu-desktop. Now when I log in I get a graphical prompt for my password but after I login it seems to take alot of time. I have heard that something call GNOME is faster. How do I install it. Again I apologize but I am relatively new to Ubuntu but not Linux. Thank you.
I would like to cleanly shut my system down but the response from 'shutdown -P now' is that I need to be logged in as root. I installed the 'root' command but I get an error message that 'root: cannot figure out DISPLAY, set it manually'. Since this didn't work I tried logging in as root (user name) and I realize I don't know the password. So I have two questions. One, on initial installation what does the root password become? Two, what do I do about the DISPLAY problem?