edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 10
ps
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Mon May 17 07:28:29 BST 2010
Hello - How can I set a global configuration (e.g. paper size,
area-specific keyboard layout, etc.)?
Any hint is appreciated!
Paul
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> From: ps <ps at gedec.org>
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> Dear List
>
> About 10.04 ltsp, I wrote a while ago about the problembut so far there
> was response that would help in any way. However, I found that if you
> nstall 9.10 and then upgradeto 10.04 ltsp at least tries to work by
> giving thin client an ip address but no image. It seems that there is no
> tc image ready and you have to create it first and place it in the
> correct folder. Then it should work.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> edubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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>> 1. Re: ltsp-gui (Peter)
>> 2. Re: Mentoring for improving wiki pages? (David Groos)
>> 3. Re: ltsp-gui (dbclinton)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 11:27:42 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Peter <mittwit at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: ltsp-gui
>> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Message-ID: <loom.20100515T131136-699 at post.gmane.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> dbclinton <dbclin <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Working on the assumption that there are probably other people just as
>>> dumb as I am and that this might be useful for a circle wider than just
>>> me, where did the ltsp gui go on edubuntu 10.04? It was under
>>> "applications/other" while I was running a live CD session (and it
>>> worked perfectly there), during the actual install (from live CD) I saw
>>> a desktop icon, but once I'd rebooted into the OS, both the menu item
>>> and the desktop icon had disappeared (not to mention my configurations
>>> from the live CD session).
>>> I searched Edubuntu Menu Editor and Synaptic to no avail and played
>>> around in Terminal, getting some kind of response with "sudo
>>> ltsp-install" - but nothing effective.
>>> I could always do it the old-fashioned way as in past installs, but I am
>>> at least curious as to where the GUI has gone.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I was very impressed when I ran the edubuntu 10.04 live cd and had clients
>> working at a press of a button. So I was rather disappointed to find I had to
>> install ltsp from scratch to get it working once I installed edu 10.04 on my
>> server. So add me to the dumb list, especially if there is a script somewhere
>> that I missed. I have ltsp working on ubuntu 9.04 with fat clients and want to
>> set up on edubuntu 10.04 but I'm not sure if I just do it the same way as before
>> or if the set-up is different with 10.04. I guess I will just try and see what
>> happens.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 19:42:32 -0500
>> From: David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Mentoring for improving wiki pages?
>> To: Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
>> Cc: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-education
>> <ubuntu-education at lists.ubuntu.com>, Edubuntu Users Group
>> <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Message-ID:
>> <AANLkTik8NMyqau8XNKWU3zYENPEHHDq8ftfWVFhxlCqd at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Gavin and Sim?n thanks for your offers to help me write some good
>> pages--I'll take you up on all of it, starting with the iTALC. Also, thanks
>> for the history--something which I think is important to include, briefly,
>> in the wiki as well. Hopefully, others in the community with additional
>> knowledge, both from a programming and implementation-perspective, will
>> chime in as needed.
>>
>> For starters, it would be a great time-saver on my part if people would
>> direct me to good reference articles on iTALC for Ubuntu (I know it's used
>> with Windows as well but I'm not focusing on that). I of course could do a
>> google search on iTALC (done it many times, actually), however, I don't know
>> what is outdated or applies to the areas of interest. The info I'm looking
>> for is:
>> --History of the project
>> --Accuracy of the ubuntu page on italc (it says it is only good for Hardy)
>> --Differences between versions for Hardy, Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid (I'll be
>> focusing on Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid)
>> --Successful applications of iTALC
>> --CURRENT issues--limitations--with iTALC.
>> --Theory on iTALC.
>>
>> Any favorite links or mini-lessons would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> David
>>
>> PS--Sounds like we need a tutorial on installing Edubuntu/LTSP from recent
>> list-server e-mails--it's not that people are dumb, it's that wiki pages
>> need improving!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I just turned in my final last night for my statistics class so can now
>>>> dedicate some more time to edubuntu, again, and, teaching will be out for
>>>> the year in just about 4 weeks. Like many users of edubuntu, I need help
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> install/upgrade/troubleshoot/fix things. One key resource for self-help
>>>>
>>> is
>>>
>>>> the wiki. People have been working hard to improve it as a whole. I'm
>>>> suggesting to choose maybe a dozen 'hot spots'--topics that are critical
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> make edubuntu work in a school setting, and make great wiki pages on
>>>>
>>> them.
>>>
>>>> A perfect example of what I'm talking about is the work of Gavin and his
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ThinClientHowtoNAT page.
>>>>
>>> While
>>>
>>>> it is true that 3 other people have also improved that page, Gavin made a
>>>> big effort to make sure this critical task was CLEARLY and thoroughly
>>>> explained. There is no such thing as perfect but there is excellent and
>>>> that page is.
>>>>
>>>> I've spent I don't know how many hours battling iTALC and alkisg has
>>>>
>>> spent
>>>
>>>> at least 2 or 3 hours trying to help me. He one time groaned when I told
>>>> him that I had followed the directions on the wiki. These might have
>>>>
>>> been
>>>
>>>> pretty good for Hardy, but I had Jaunty and just hoped it would work; it
>>>> didn't, nor does it still.
>>>>
>>>> Here are some possible 'sticky points'. There might be some good wiki
>>>>
>>> pages
>>>
>>>> on them now, but when I first tackled these tasks, they were lacking.
>>>>
>>> They
>>>
>>>> are critical to many school setups.
>>>>
>>>> --iTALC setup
>>>> --Basic squid proxy setup
>>>> --Localapps setup
>>>> --Backup System
>>>> --using flash
>>>> --using java
>>>> --setting up file-sharing systems for one's classes
>>>>
>>>> I need to understand iTALC and make it work. I would be more than happy
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> polish this iTALC wiki page. I'll need mentoring, a lot at the start,
>>>>
>>> but a
>>>
>>>> great wiki page saves time for everyone and helps edubuntu users feel
>>>> confident. Is there anyone who knows iTALC that would serve as my
>>>>
>>> technical
>>>
>>>> mentor on this wiki page? What would you add to or remove from the list
>>>>
>>> of
>>>
>>>> sticky points?
>>>>
>>> I had quite a bit of experience with iTALC back in 2006, in fact the
>>> article I wrote back then on compiling iTALC from source for Dapper
>>> <
>>> http://indianalinux.blogspot.com/2007/02/howto-install-italc-from-source-on.html
>>>
>>> is still, according to Google Analytics, the single most visited
>>> article on my somewhat comatose blog.
>>>
>>> My big problem was simply that there weren't up to date iTALC packages
>>> for Ubuntu, and building from source gave me that.
>>>
>>> I was working on just "normal" Desktops, though, so I have
>>> *absolutely* no experience with iTALC on LTSP. (no experience with
>>> LTSP yet, really)
>>>
>>> Still, I may be able to help if your questions are basically just
>>> iTALC-related. What problems are you having?
>>>
>>>
>>>> David G
>>>>
>>> Sim?n R
>>>
>>> P.S. Just in case you're unaware: iTALC 1.x development ground to a
>>> halt as the developer (a college student who codes in his free time)
>>> works on version 2.0. The latest version, 1.0.10, was just released
>>> after a couple of years break, and it pretty much just includes bug
>>> fixes.
>>>
>>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:37:42 -0400
>> From: dbclinton <dbclin at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: ltsp-gui
>> To: Peter <mittwit at gmail.com>
>> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Message-ID: <1273981062.1820.11.camel at rishon>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> Hello,
>> Here's what I discovered about my problem:
>> My best guess is that ltsp failed to properly install (during the actual
>> hard disk install process) because it couldn't get past my proxy server.
>> Now, while in the live CD gui, I had configured my proxy info including
>> authentication, but that information doesn't seem to have been passed to
>> the actual installed system (I know that because I had to set it again
>> once the install was done).
>> Here's what I did to install ltsp on the HD (thanks to the guys a irc
>> #edubuntu - if you don't have a proxy server, ignore the "export
>> http..." line):
>> First:
>> use synaptic to install ltsp-server-standalone (NOT ltsp-server, but
>> ltsp-server-standalone!)
>> Then, from terminal:
>> sudo -i
>> export
>> http_proxy=http://[yourproxyusername]:[proxypassword]@[proxyipaddress]:[proxyport]/
>> ltsp-build-client
>> Good luck
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:27 +0000, Peter wrote:
>>
>>> dbclinton <dbclin <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Working on the assumption that there are probably other people just as
>>>> dumb as I am and that this might be useful for a circle wider than just
>>>> me, where did the ltsp gui go on edubuntu 10.04? It was under
>>>> "applications/other" while I was running a live CD session (and it
>>>> worked perfectly there), during the actual install (from live CD) I saw
>>>> a desktop icon, but once I'd rebooted into the OS, both the menu item
>>>> and the desktop icon had disappeared (not to mention my configurations
>>>> from the live CD session).
>>>> I searched Edubuntu Menu Editor and Synaptic to no avail and played
>>>> around in Terminal, getting some kind of response with "sudo
>>>> ltsp-install" - but nothing effective.
>>>> I could always do it the old-fashioned way as in past installs, but I am
>>>> at least curious as to where the GUI has gone.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I was very impressed when I ran the edubuntu 10.04 live cd and had clients
>>> working at a press of a button. So I was rather disappointed to find I had to
>>> install ltsp from scratch to get it working once I installed edu 10.04 on my
>>> server. So add me to the dumb list, especially if there is a script somewhere
>>> that I missed. I have ltsp working on ubuntu 9.04 with fat clients and want to
>>> set up on edubuntu 10.04 but I'm not sure if I just do it the same way as before
>>> or if the set-up is different with 10.04. I guess I will just try and see what
>>> happens.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:37:40 -0500
> From: David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9
> To: ps <ps at gedec.org>
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTinrRAybvsx4hmxg4wB8CFcb3C2rVnWr2Nk9ZFzv at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for your continued effort at communicating your experiences with
> this. Personally, I've not yet gotten to try and install Lucid with LTSP
> and thus don't have much to say but, 'good luck!' :) Well actually I was
> working on it, got repeatedly stymied and have put it on the back burner
> till the school year is out and I've got more time to address it.
>
> Have you seen this
> page<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall#Installing%20on%20top%20of%20an%20already%20running%20desktop%20system>?
> It's not so easy to find but I've heard it's up to date with Lucid.
> This page <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP> is the mother-load
> of LTSP-related links... though of course of varying states of
> up-to-datedness.
>
> What has been your experience searching for needed info related to
> installing Lucid/Edubuntu?
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:17 PM, ps <ps at gedec.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear List
>>
>> About 10.04 ltsp, I wrote a while ago about the problembut so far there
>> was response that would help in any way. However, I found that if you
>> nstall 9.10 and then upgradeto 10.04 ltsp at least tries to work by
>> giving thin client an ip address but no image. It seems that there is no
>> tc image ready and you have to create it first and place it in the
>> correct folder. Then it should work.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> edubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>>> Send edubuntu-users mailing list submissions to
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>>> Today's Topics:
>>>
>>> 1. Re: ltsp-gui (Peter)
>>> 2. Re: Mentoring for improving wiki pages? (David Groos)
>>> 3. Re: ltsp-gui (dbclinton)
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 11:27:42 +0000 (UTC)
>>> From: Peter <mittwit at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: ltsp-gui
>>> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Message-ID: <loom.20100515T131136-699 at post.gmane.org>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>
>>> dbclinton <dbclin <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Working on the assumption that there are probably other people just as
>>>> dumb as I am and that this might be useful for a circle wider than just
>>>> me, where did the ltsp gui go on edubuntu 10.04? It was under
>>>> "applications/other" while I was running a live CD session (and it
>>>> worked perfectly there), during the actual install (from live CD) I saw
>>>> a desktop icon, but once I'd rebooted into the OS, both the menu item
>>>> and the desktop icon had disappeared (not to mention my configurations
>>>> from the live CD session).
>>>> I searched Edubuntu Menu Editor and Synaptic to no avail and played
>>>> around in Terminal, getting some kind of response with "sudo
>>>> ltsp-install" - but nothing effective.
>>>> I could always do it the old-fashioned way as in past installs, but I am
>>>> at least curious as to where the GUI has gone.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I was very impressed when I ran the edubuntu 10.04 live cd and had
>> clients
>>> working at a press of a button. So I was rather disappointed to find I
>> had to
>>> install ltsp from scratch to get it working once I installed edu 10.04 on
>> my
>>> server. So add me to the dumb list, especially if there is a script
>> somewhere
>>> that I missed. I have ltsp working on ubuntu 9.04 with fat clients and
>> want to
>>> set up on edubuntu 10.04 but I'm not sure if I just do it the same way as
>> before
>>> or if the set-up is different with 10.04. I guess I will just try and see
>> what
>>> happens.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 19:42:32 -0500
>>> From: David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Mentoring for improving wiki pages?
>>> To: Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-education
>>> <ubuntu-education at lists.ubuntu.com>, Edubuntu Users Group
>>> <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <AANLkTik8NMyqau8XNKWU3zYENPEHHDq8ftfWVFhxlCqd at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> Gavin and Sim?n thanks for your offers to help me write some good
>>> pages--I'll take you up on all of it, starting with the iTALC. Also,
>> thanks
>>> for the history--something which I think is important to include,
>> briefly,
>>> in the wiki as well. Hopefully, others in the community with additional
>>> knowledge, both from a programming and implementation-perspective, will
>>> chime in as needed.
>>>
>>> For starters, it would be a great time-saver on my part if people would
>>> direct me to good reference articles on iTALC for Ubuntu (I know it's
>> used
>>> with Windows as well but I'm not focusing on that). I of course could do
>> a
>>> google search on iTALC (done it many times, actually), however, I don't
>> know
>>> what is outdated or applies to the areas of interest. The info I'm
>> looking
>>> for is:
>>> --History of the project
>>> --Accuracy of the ubuntu page on italc (it says it is only good for
>> Hardy)
>>> --Differences between versions for Hardy, Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid (I'll be
>>> focusing on Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid)
>>> --Successful applications of iTALC
>>> --CURRENT issues--limitations--with iTALC.
>>> --Theory on iTALC.
>>>
>>> Any favorite links or mini-lessons would be much appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> David
>>>
>>> PS--Sounds like we need a tutorial on installing Edubuntu/LTSP from
>> recent
>>> list-server e-mails--it's not that people are dumb, it's that wiki pages
>>> need improving!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just turned in my final last night for my statistics class so can now
>>>>> dedicate some more time to edubuntu, again, and, teaching will be out
>> for
>>>>> the year in just about 4 weeks. Like many users of edubuntu, I need
>> help
>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>> install/upgrade/troubleshoot/fix things. One key resource for
>> self-help
>>>> is
>>>>
>>>>> the wiki. People have been working hard to improve it as a whole. I'm
>>>>> suggesting to choose maybe a dozen 'hot spots'--topics that are
>> critical
>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>> make edubuntu work in a school setting, and make great wiki pages on
>>>>>
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>>> A perfect example of what I'm talking about is the work of Gavin and
>> his
>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ThinClientHowtoNAT page.
>>>>>
>>>> While
>>>>
>>>>> it is true that 3 other people have also improved that page, Gavin made
>> a
>>>>> big effort to make sure this critical task was CLEARLY and thoroughly
>>>>> explained. There is no such thing as perfect but there is excellent
>> and
>>>>> that page is.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've spent I don't know how many hours battling iTALC and alkisg has
>>>>>
>>>> spent
>>>>
>>>>> at least 2 or 3 hours trying to help me. He one time groaned when I
>> told
>>>>> him that I had followed the directions on the wiki. These might have
>>>>>
>>>> been
>>>>
>>>>> pretty good for Hardy, but I had Jaunty and just hoped it would work;
>> it
>>>>> didn't, nor does it still.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are some possible 'sticky points'. There might be some good wiki
>>>>>
>>>> pages
>>>>
>>>>> on them now, but when I first tackled these tasks, they were lacking.
>>>>>
>>>> They
>>>>
>>>>> are critical to many school setups.
>>>>>
>>>>> --iTALC setup
>>>>> --Basic squid proxy setup
>>>>> --Localapps setup
>>>>> --Backup System
>>>>> --using flash
>>>>> --using java
>>>>> --setting up file-sharing systems for one's classes
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to understand iTALC and make it work. I would be more than
>> happy
>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>> polish this iTALC wiki page. I'll need mentoring, a lot at the start,
>>>>>
>>>> but a
>>>>
>>>>> great wiki page saves time for everyone and helps edubuntu users feel
>>>>> confident. Is there anyone who knows iTALC that would serve as my
>>>>>
>>>> technical
>>>>
>>>>> mentor on this wiki page? What would you add to or remove from the
>> list
>>>> of
>>>>
>>>>> sticky points?
>>>>>
>>>> I had quite a bit of experience with iTALC back in 2006, in fact the
>>>> article I wrote back then on compiling iTALC from source for Dapper
>>>> <
>>>>
>> http://indianalinux.blogspot.com/2007/02/howto-install-italc-from-source-on.html
>>>> is still, according to Google Analytics, the single most visited
>>>> article on my somewhat comatose blog.
>>>>
>>>> My big problem was simply that there weren't up to date iTALC packages
>>>> for Ubuntu, and building from source gave me that.
>>>>
>>>> I was working on just "normal" Desktops, though, so I have
>>>> *absolutely* no experience with iTALC on LTSP. (no experience with
>>>> LTSP yet, really)
>>>>
>>>> Still, I may be able to help if your questions are basically just
>>>> iTALC-related. What problems are you having?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> David G
>>>>>
>>>> Sim?n R
>>>>
>>>> P.S. Just in case you're unaware: iTALC 1.x development ground to a
>>>> halt as the developer (a college student who codes in his free time)
>>>> works on version 2.0. The latest version, 1.0.10, was just released
>>>> after a couple of years break, and it pretty much just includes bug
>>>> fixes.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:37:42 -0400
>>> From: dbclinton <dbclin at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: ltsp-gui
>>> To: Peter <mittwit at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Message-ID: <1273981062.1820.11.camel at rishon>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Here's what I discovered about my problem:
>>> My best guess is that ltsp failed to properly install (during the actual
>>> hard disk install process) because it couldn't get past my proxy server.
>>> Now, while in the live CD gui, I had configured my proxy info including
>>> authentication, but that information doesn't seem to have been passed to
>>> the actual installed system (I know that because I had to set it again
>>> once the install was done).
>>> Here's what I did to install ltsp on the HD (thanks to the guys a irc
>>> #edubuntu - if you don't have a proxy server, ignore the "export
>>> http..." line):
>>> First:
>>> use synaptic to install ltsp-server-standalone (NOT ltsp-server, but
>>> ltsp-server-standalone!)
>>> Then, from terminal:
>>> sudo -i
>>> export
>>> http_proxy=http://
>> [yourproxyusername]:[proxypassword]@[proxyipaddress]:[proxyport]/
>>> ltsp-build-client
>>> Good luck
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:27 +0000, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>>> dbclinton <dbclin <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Working on the assumption that there are probably other people just as
>>>>> dumb as I am and that this might be useful for a circle wider than just
>>>>> me, where did the ltsp gui go on edubuntu 10.04? It was under
>>>>> "applications/other" while I was running a live CD session (and it
>>>>> worked perfectly there), during the actual install (from live CD) I saw
>>>>> a desktop icon, but once I'd rebooted into the OS, both the menu item
>>>>> and the desktop icon had disappeared (not to mention my configurations
>>>>> from the live CD session).
>>>>> I searched Edubuntu Menu Editor and Synaptic to no avail and played
>>>>> around in Terminal, getting some kind of response with "sudo
>>>>> ltsp-install" - but nothing effective.
>>>>> I could always do it the old-fashioned way as in past installs, but I
>> am
>>>>> at least curious as to where the GUI has gone.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I was very impressed when I ran the edubuntu 10.04 live cd and had
>> clients
>>>> working at a press of a button. So I was rather disappointed to find I
>> had to
>>>> install ltsp from scratch to get it working once I installed edu 10.04
>> on my
>>>> server. So add me to the dumb list, especially if there is a script
>> somewhere
>>>> that I missed. I have ltsp working on ubuntu 9.04 with fat clients and
>> want to
>>>> set up on edubuntu 10.04 but I'm not sure if I just do it the same way
>> as before
>>>> or if the set-up is different with 10.04. I guess I will just try and
>> see what
>>>> happens.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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