ltsp-gui

[Theo Schmidt]

dbclinton wrote:
> 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? 

I found in an answer to a bug report that the GUI is only part of 
LTSP-live on Edubuntu 10.04 running live and is not included once you 
install Edubuntu 10.04.
...
> 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. 

Yes, I'm stumped as well. The previous "Install an LTSP server" option 
via F4 during the boot screen is now missing. I confirmed a bug at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/328317 but it is undecided.

So, having installed Edubuntu 10.04, the first thing to do is to install 
the required LTSP-packages which are there on the DVD. Unfortunately a 
bug prevents synaptic or kpackagekit from using the DVD. Again I 
confirmed a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/579110 but 
it is undecided. (Please, if these bugs affect you as well, go and 
"vote" for them, as so far they only seem to affect two people, the 
original filer and me.)

It is possible to find the packages on the DVD and install them 
individually with gdebi by clicking on them, but you have to install the 
ten or so required packages in the correct sequence. No doubt it would 
work better on the terminal with apt-get install, but I'd like to try it 
  from the GUI.

Once everything is installed, one would expect "sudo ltsp-install" or 
"sudo ltsp-build-client" to work, but it still doesn't.

Somebody found a solution at 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474380&highlight=ltsp which I 
havn't tried out yet, but it seems to require an internet connection and 
I'd really like to try to get LTSP going first without one.

Theo Schmidt