TranslationStatus
Attachment '20070918_installing_xubuntu_en.srt'
Download1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,100 2 00:00:00,187 --> 00:00:05,361 This is a screencast about Xubuntu, 3 00:00:05,461 --> 00:00:07,561 however you like to say it. 4 00:00:07,661 --> 00:00:13,820 Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that features the XFCE desktop, 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:18,605 which typically requires fewer system resources, 6 00:00:18,705 --> 00:00:21,650 less fast processor, less RAM, things like that. 7 00:00:21,750 --> 00:00:26,604 and is therefore really popular for users of old machines. 8 00:00:26,704 --> 00:00:31,945 So if you are trying to get Ubuntu on to a lower spec machine, 9 00:00:32,045 --> 00:00:35,860 older components, this is a great one to try out. 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,906 You can find their web page at xubuntu.org, 11 00:00:39,006 --> 00:00:43,376 which of course features all the different CDs that you can download 12 00:00:43,476 --> 00:00:45,213 in the usual way. 13 00:00:45,313 --> 00:00:53,744 For this demo I will use the 7.04, which is the Feisty Fawn edition. 14 00:00:54,787 --> 00:01:00,801 You an choose which country best suites your downloading needs. 15 00:01:00,901 --> 00:01:05,465 In this case since I'm in the US, I'll choose the United States. 16 00:01:07,523 --> 00:01:10,931 And once you've gotten into that site, 17 00:01:11,031 --> 00:01:14,504 you can choose what kind of CD you want to download. 18 00:01:14,604 --> 00:01:18,299 Now it kind of depends on the Xubuntu bean for spec machines. 19 00:01:18,399 --> 00:01:20,452 You may want to think about this for a moment, 20 00:01:20,552 --> 00:01:27,321 If it's a very very old machine, you might need what's called the alternate install CD. 21 00:01:27,421 --> 00:01:34,217 For the less old machines you can go ahead and get the normal desktop CD. 22 00:01:34,317 --> 00:01:39,729 But if you really feel like this is a pre-2000-ish machine 23 00:01:39,829 --> 00:01:42,815 and you still want to try to get Ubuntu on there, 24 00:01:42,915 --> 00:01:47,794 you would be amazed at how well Ubuntu runs on these very very old machines. 25 00:01:47,894 --> 00:01:51,763 But sometimes it is better to go out and get the alternate CD, 26 00:01:51,863 --> 00:01:55,691 which has a few more options about installation, 27 00:01:55,791 --> 00:01:58,702 which actually we will go into in this screencast. 28 00:01:59,632 --> 00:02:01,901 So I'm going to get both actually. 29 00:02:02,001 --> 00:02:05,293 But we'll start out with the normal installation. 30 00:02:05,742 --> 00:02:12,943 So downloading this and burning it to CD is covered in previous screencasts. 31 00:02:13,424 --> 00:02:17,352 Not necessarily Xubuntu, but the normal Ubuntu. 32 00:02:17,452 --> 00:02:22,458 And so it's kind of something I won't cover here, 33 00:02:22,558 --> 00:02:26,330 because there's a previous screencast about this. 34 00:02:26,735 --> 00:02:29,341 One on burning it with Nero 35 00:02:29,441 --> 00:02:34,026 and one on burning it on some other application out of Windows, 36 00:02:34,126 --> 00:02:36,195 if you're switching over. 37 00:02:36,295 --> 00:02:39,685 So I'll get out of that and I'm going to reboot the system, 38 00:02:39,785 --> 00:02:45,472 so that we can go from a fresh boot with a whole new install. 39 00:02:45,648 --> 00:02:52,379 So here we've rebooted the system and this is the first screen that you will see. 40 00:02:52,479 --> 00:02:55,808 You've got a couple of different options there is the start or install Xubuntu 41 00:02:55,933 --> 00:03:00,200 if you just want to try it out, if this is your first time trying out Ubuntu, 42 00:03:00,294 --> 00:03:03,093 or if you're just curious about the XFCE desktop, 43 00:03:03,193 --> 00:03:06,597 you can always run it off the CD. 44 00:03:06,697 --> 00:03:10,337 It will obviously run a little bit slower than it would if it was on your hard drive, 45 00:03:10,437 --> 00:03:12,638 because it is reading everything from a CD. 46 00:03:12,738 --> 00:03:14,995 But it's a good way to experience the environment. 47 00:03:15,095 --> 00:03:19,185 You can start Xubuntu in what's called the safe graphics mode, 48 00:03:19,285 --> 00:03:26,180 which basically takes the lowest possible, catch all graphic mode, 49 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:31,075 so that no matter what screen you have, it will show you a graphic. 50 00:03:31,175 --> 00:03:33,773 What I typically do is I just hit F4 51 00:03:33,873 --> 00:03:40,571 and you can choose from the different displays from that menu that you're seeing now. 52 00:03:40,802 --> 00:03:45,472 The one I've had the most success with is 800x600, 53 00:03:45,572 --> 00:03:48,994 with, this is very important, 16 bit depth. 54 00:03:49,094 --> 00:03:53,228 Sometimes, if you try something higher like a 24 bit depth 55 00:03:53,328 --> 00:03:55,541 or certainly a higher resolution, 56 00:03:55,641 --> 00:03:59,426 if your monitor is too old it just, it won't be recognized. 57 00:03:59,526 --> 00:04:02,175 So that's what I typically do. 58 00:04:02,275 --> 00:04:07,325 Having set that, I then start the disc. 59 00:04:07,425 --> 00:04:10,225 Now if you want to not do this, if you change your mind 60 00:04:10,325 --> 00:04:12,645 or if you've accidentally left the CD in the drive 61 00:04:12,745 --> 00:04:14,737 and you just want to boot from your hard disk, 62 00:04:14,837 --> 00:04:16,855 you can boot from the hard drive. 63 00:04:16,955 --> 00:04:20,114 But we're going to start up off the CD, we've set our resolution, 64 00:04:20,214 --> 00:04:24,173 so we hit that and it loads the Linux kernel 65 00:04:24,273 --> 00:04:28,712 and it boots up the system a little bit something like this. 66 00:04:30,208 --> 00:04:33,787 Now understand that on older spec machines 67 00:04:33,887 --> 00:04:38,501 this CD is going to attempt to auto-detect the configuration 68 00:04:38,601 --> 00:04:40,929 and one of the main things it needs to auto-detect, 69 00:04:41,015 --> 00:04:43,813 especially on the older systems, is the monitor. 70 00:04:43,913 --> 00:04:46,344 and what kind if graphic ability you've got. 71 00:04:46,444 --> 00:04:52,673 So if you're not having a good result with the main CD, 72 00:04:52,773 --> 00:04:54,781 then you might want to try the alternate CD, 73 00:04:54,881 --> 00:04:57,299 because it's a lot easier of an install, 74 00:04:57,399 --> 00:04:59,058 requires a lot less. 75 00:04:59,158 --> 00:05:01,676 Well it's a harder install, but it requires less of your computer. 76 00:05:01,776 --> 00:05:06,038 So this is the main XFCE desktop and this is running off the CD, 77 00:05:06,138 --> 00:05:08,385 so it's a little bit slower than it would be. 78 00:05:08,485 --> 00:05:13,754 But it's got the Thunar file manager, rather than Nautilus 79 00:05:13,854 --> 00:05:17,708 or if you're coming from PC, the Windows Explorer. 80 00:05:18,414 --> 00:05:21,143 And you can play around with it and explore what it does have. 81 00:05:21,243 --> 00:05:24,185 And then once you've decided that you like what you see, 82 00:05:24,285 --> 00:05:26,367 you can just click on the install. 83 00:05:26,467 --> 00:05:35,065 And the default or main installer with Xubuntu is really quite friendly. 84 00:05:35,165 --> 00:05:42,267 It's very graphical, easy to navigate through and it's almost self-explanatory. 85 00:05:42,367 --> 00:05:45,833 So I'll kind of go through it quickly, the first screen. 86 00:05:45,933 --> 00:05:49,044 And again you just have to keep in mind that since it's running off a CD 87 00:05:49,144 --> 00:05:50,821 it's not touching the hard drive at all, 88 00:05:50,921 --> 00:05:54,911 everything's being read just as fast as the CD can turn. 89 00:05:55,011 --> 00:05:58,110 So it's not as fast as off of a hard drive. 90 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:03,990 So here's the list of your language that you want to install 91 00:06:06,362 --> 00:06:10,811 Choose that from the menu and then you can choose your time zone 92 00:06:10,911 --> 00:06:14,390 lots of different time zones for wherever you are. 93 00:06:14,490 --> 00:06:17,607 I'll choose New York. 94 00:06:21,417 --> 00:06:25,127 Now this is important because this is your keyboard, 95 00:06:25,227 --> 00:06:28,773 so you can choose whatever keyboard you've got. 96 00:06:32,459 --> 00:06:36,736 Now it's going to scan for hard drive and look at the hard drive. 97 00:06:36,836 --> 00:06:39,965 Now the hard drive I'm installing this on to pretty much 98 00:06:40,065 --> 00:06:42,616 is just a completely new hard drive. 99 00:06:42,716 --> 00:06:46,806 I mean it's not new, but I wiped it clean of any kind of system. 100 00:06:46,906 --> 00:06:51,139 And since it is an older machine it's a very small hard drive. 101 00:06:51,239 --> 00:06:53,702 And I'm just going to go and use the whole drive. 102 00:06:53,802 --> 00:06:56,075 and I think typically if you're doing Xubuntu, 103 00:06:56,175 --> 00:06:58,268 that's probably what you're going to be doing, 104 00:06:58,368 --> 00:07:02,226 because you're probably not running like Windows on the other partition. 105 00:07:02,326 --> 00:07:05,368 you know, on the hard drive with any great success. 106 00:07:05,468 --> 00:07:09,486 So you might as well... At least for me, when I'm doing this typically I just go ahead 107 00:07:09,586 --> 00:07:12,077 and go for the whole hard drive and that makes it easy. 108 00:07:12,177 --> 00:07:15,786 But if you need more information about about partitioning hard drives and things like that, 109 00:07:15,886 --> 00:07:20,369 there is a separate screencast on that kind of stuff, so you can do that. 110 00:07:20,469 --> 00:07:24,472 So now on this setup we are setting up the initial user. 111 00:07:25,569 --> 00:07:27,671 The first thing it will ask you for is your name 112 00:07:27,771 --> 00:07:32,098 and that'll the name you want the system to know you as. 113 00:07:33,081 --> 00:07:37,478 The other name for your login is the actual login name. 114 00:07:37,578 --> 00:07:43,644 you can choose a password, I just choosing some really basic stuff here, 115 00:07:43,744 --> 00:07:49,219 because this is just a demo machine. 116 00:07:52,810 --> 00:07:55,866 And now it's ready to install and it will give us a little summary. 117 00:07:55,966 --> 00:07:59,576 So it's your chance to look over what you have chosen, 118 00:07:59,676 --> 00:08:02,269 and make sure that's really what you want. 119 00:08:02,953 --> 00:08:06,105 And up until now nothing has actually been written to the hard drive. 120 00:08:06,205 --> 00:08:08,117 So you can still bail out. 121 00:08:08,217 --> 00:08:13,748 But now I've hit install, so now it's starting to process the installation. 122 00:08:13,848 --> 00:08:17,645 And it'll take a while even though it's a small hard drive. 123 00:08:18,125 --> 00:08:21,398 You know, it's going to install a fair amount of software, 124 00:08:21,498 --> 00:08:24,672 it's got to erase the drive first and all kinds of stuff 125 00:08:24,772 --> 00:08:32,145 So I'm going to sort of fast forward us through this process. 126 00:08:34,972 --> 00:08:38,320 And so far we've had really good luck with this. 127 00:08:38,420 --> 00:08:45,347 So on really really old systems, this just might not work out for you. 128 00:08:45,447 --> 00:08:48,284 But that does not mean that there's no hope 129 00:08:48,384 --> 00:08:52,212 and in a short time we will do the alternate install. 130 00:08:52,312 --> 00:08:56,826 And you'll see although you have to get in there and do a little bit of extra work, 131 00:08:56,926 --> 00:09:00,972 it's actually not that hard, it's surprisingly easy in fact 132 00:09:01,072 --> 00:09:03,852 and we'll do that. 133 00:09:04,651 --> 00:09:11,490 Okay so through the magic of screencasting, I have advanced the installation process. 134 00:09:11,590 --> 00:09:18,517 And it is here reminding us to go ahead and either restart or continue to use the CD. 135 00:09:18,617 --> 00:09:21,581 If you're still playing around with the system 136 00:09:21,681 --> 00:09:25,125 or you want to keep looking through it or something. 137 00:09:25,225 --> 00:09:29,341 you can continue looking through the CD or using the CD rather 138 00:09:29,441 --> 00:09:33,488 and when you've finished you can logout. 139 00:09:34,635 --> 00:09:40,764 You'll want to make sure you eject this CD after you reboot or shutdown, 140 00:09:41,051 --> 00:09:46,887 because otherwise your computer will boot off the CD again. 141 00:09:54,232 --> 00:09:57,929 Okay the machine is now restarting. 142 00:10:10,730 --> 00:10:18,879 Okay the machine has rebooted and it'll take a moment to get up to speed here. 143 00:10:18,979 --> 00:10:23,605 But there we go, now it's started the graphic user interface 144 00:10:23,705 --> 00:10:25,819 and it gives us the prompt to login. 145 00:10:25,919 --> 00:10:31,842 So remember this is the name and password that we set during installation. 146 00:10:36,219 --> 00:10:43,464 And assuming we know that information it will kick us into the desktop. 147 00:10:43,564 --> 00:10:48,816 So this is the XFCE 4 desktop 148 00:10:48,916 --> 00:10:54,518 Again it's pretty much what we saw before when we were working with the CD, 149 00:10:54,618 --> 00:10:56,904 except no installation button. 150 00:10:57,004 --> 00:11:02,669 But it should look fairly similar, it's got the usual file manager kind of setup, 151 00:11:02,769 --> 00:11:04,685 it's called Thunar. 152 00:11:04,785 --> 00:11:09,332 So that's where you'll find all of your data files that you create and save. 153 00:11:09,432 --> 00:11:15,912 And then up in the upper left hand corner under the little XFCE window, 154 00:11:16,012 --> 00:11:18,836 you've got all your system settings, 155 00:11:18,936 --> 00:11:23,395 which are fairly similar to the normal Ubuntu system settings. 156 00:11:23,495 --> 00:11:30,021 And there's a separate screencast on how to customize your computer, like the desktop 157 00:11:30,121 --> 00:11:32,726 and how to get online and things like that. 158 00:11:32,826 --> 00:11:40,987 So it's pretty simple and pretty well covered on other screencasts. 159 00:11:41,087 --> 00:11:45,766 It's more of just an aesthetic thing when it comes down to where to find things. 160 00:11:45,866 --> 00:11:51,149 I mean it's typically the same idea, there are different programs, 161 00:11:51,249 --> 00:11:56,465 and all the main programs you need to do your hard work. 162 00:11:56,565 --> 00:11:59,339 You know, there's multimedia programs to watch your movies. 163 00:11:59,439 --> 00:12:09,206 There's a word processing program to do your office work, to write letters. 164 00:12:09,671 --> 00:12:12,775 Just type in a quick note. 165 00:12:18,006 --> 00:12:20,318 I don't think I'll save that one. 166 00:12:20,418 --> 00:12:23,269 So it's a really robust system as you can see, 167 00:12:23,369 --> 00:12:25,369 I mean it's got everything you typically need 168 00:12:25,469 --> 00:12:29,363 and obviously you can always add more with the Synaptic Package Manager, 169 00:12:29,463 --> 00:12:32,088 just like in Ubuntu. 170 00:12:33,870 --> 00:12:39,824 And it's attractive and nice, you'll find that just because it is a simpler, 171 00:12:39,924 --> 00:12:44,689 it just doesn't have really any fancy effects 172 00:12:44,789 --> 00:12:47,287 it's not a very complex desktop system 173 00:12:47,387 --> 00:12:51,471 and that just saves a lot of work for your main processor. 174 00:12:51,571 --> 00:12:56,160 It doesn't demand as much out of your system RAM 175 00:12:56,260 --> 00:13:00,369 and I think you'll be amazed. 176 00:13:00,469 --> 00:13:05,210 I was really pleased that my very old computer that I had lying around 177 00:13:05,310 --> 00:13:09,218 basically not being used, nothing was on it. 178 00:13:09,318 --> 00:13:13,504 I threw Xubuntu on there and it runs really well. 179 00:13:13,604 --> 00:13:17,385 So let's assume that you have a computer so old 180 00:13:17,485 --> 00:13:23,628 that the normal install of Xubuntu did not work. 181 00:13:23,728 --> 00:13:27,797 In that case, we will shut this down 182 00:13:27,897 --> 00:13:32,990 and we'll boot up off the alternate installation disc. 183 00:13:33,090 --> 00:13:36,192 So the first screen that you'll see is very much like the first one, 184 00:13:36,292 --> 00:13:38,132 except that you've different options. 185 00:13:38,233 --> 00:13:43,220 You've got the Install in Text Mode, you've got a text mode install for manufacturers. 186 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,095 So if you're building a system and you need to customize it, you can do that. 187 00:13:47,195 --> 00:13:51,116 And then there's install a command line system, which you don't probably want to do. 188 00:13:51,216 --> 00:13:54,695 I think by default the F4 setting is VGA, 189 00:13:54,795 --> 00:13:59,006 which is the generic whatever monitor there happens to be, 190 00:13:59,106 --> 00:14:01,552 as long as there's a monitor it will show you. 191 00:14:01,652 --> 00:14:06,129 This is a very basic installer, it's not as pretty as the other one. 192 00:14:06,229 --> 00:14:09,346 but believe me it's easy, it's not frightening at all 193 00:14:09,446 --> 00:14:12,197 To navigate it's the up and down arrow, 194 00:14:12,297 --> 00:14:15,021 hit return to accept something, 195 00:14:15,121 --> 00:14:20,870 and the side arrows to select either the yes or the no and things like that. 196 00:14:20,970 --> 00:14:24,745 So here it's just asking me to press a key on my keyboard, 197 00:14:24,845 --> 00:14:29,816 so it can identify if I've got a keyboard hooked up to this computer. 198 00:14:32,448 --> 00:14:35,836 And then it asks me if there are certain keys on my keyboard, 199 00:14:35,936 --> 00:14:40,974 it's just trying to help me help it identify what keyboard I'm using, 200 00:14:41,074 --> 00:14:43,998 what system I'm actually using. 201 00:14:46,557 --> 00:14:49,777 And you just keep clicking through, I mean it's a really simple installer 202 00:14:49,877 --> 00:14:52,399 it's just not as pretty as the other one, 203 00:14:52,499 --> 00:14:55,961 but it's asking us basically the same information. 204 00:14:59,557 --> 00:15:04,071 Again the right and left arrow for the yes and no, 205 00:15:04,171 --> 00:15:06,515 return to accept. 206 00:15:20,582 --> 00:15:23,695 So now it's detecting the hardware. 207 00:15:23,795 --> 00:15:27,323 So it's looking for the CD-ROM drive first. 208 00:15:27,423 --> 00:15:29,085 Found that. 209 00:15:34,953 --> 00:15:39,824 It's loading some additional components for the installation. 210 00:15:41,094 --> 00:15:45,307 And this is actually a fairly quick process itself. 211 00:15:55,715 --> 00:15:58,832 There's a lot of auto-configuration that it can do. 212 00:15:58,932 --> 00:16:05,923 I have this system plugged into a network by an Ethernet cable. 213 00:16:06,023 --> 00:16:10,017 So it actually is, it's doing most of the configuration on it's own. 214 00:16:10,117 --> 00:16:15,689 Right here it's asking to give the computer a name, basically. 215 00:16:15,789 --> 00:16:19,887 It really, it's pretty arbitrary, you don't have to give it anything special. 216 00:16:19,987 --> 00:16:23,615 Don't use spaces or any weird characters. 217 00:16:25,323 --> 00:16:30,664 And again this is the partitioning portion of it 218 00:16:30,764 --> 00:16:33,484 and again I think that for an Xubuntu system, 219 00:16:33,584 --> 00:16:35,604 since you're probably doing it on an older machine, 220 00:16:35,704 --> 00:16:40,576 you probably don't, you're probably not really going to be partitioning a disk. 221 00:16:40,676 --> 00:16:43,792 You're probably doing this to resurrect a machine. 222 00:16:43,892 --> 00:16:48,206 Not use Xubuntu in conjunction with another operating system. 223 00:16:48,306 --> 00:16:51,103 At least that's how it's been in my case lately. 224 00:16:53,031 --> 00:16:57,563 But if you do need to partition a fancier partitioning table, 225 00:16:57,663 --> 00:17:02,142 you can watch one of the previous screencasts on partitioning 226 00:17:02,242 --> 00:17:04,335 and that will explain all of that kind of stuff. 227 00:17:06,117 --> 00:17:11,061 Timezone selection, choose your timezone. 228 00:17:13,647 --> 00:17:18,956 This is the timezone selection you can choose whatever timezone you are in. 229 00:17:25,782 --> 00:17:32,189 This is where we are setting up our username and the password. 230 00:17:45,886 --> 00:17:49,593 So do this carefully, this is your username and your password, 231 00:17:49,693 --> 00:17:51,934 so you want it to be good. 232 00:17:57,876 --> 00:18:01,214 And this is the beginning of the installation, 233 00:18:01,314 --> 00:18:05,698 this is what it will do for the next couple of minutes. 234 00:18:08,330 --> 00:18:16,491 And I think I'm going to magically make this happen faster than it really would. 235 00:18:16,591 --> 00:18:20,950 And now it's finished, magically. 236 00:18:21,050 --> 00:18:26,068 And so I'm going to go ahead and press continue 237 00:18:27,703 --> 00:18:31,989 It's finishing up, it's going to eject the disk for me 238 00:18:32,089 --> 00:18:34,429 and I'll take that before I restart. 239 00:18:34,529 --> 00:18:38,203 And once I've restarted my new login screen is this. 240 00:18:38,303 --> 00:18:41,070 Now this may look a little bit scary to you because, 241 00:18:41,170 --> 00:18:44,152 well there's no graphic interface yet. 242 00:18:44,252 --> 00:18:47,621 And to get a graphic interface you typically would type startx. 243 00:18:47,721 --> 00:18:52,971 But as you can see it can't start X yet because it doesn't know what X is. 244 00:18:53,071 --> 00:18:57,823 Getting all these components is very easy, it's just text. 245 00:18:57,923 --> 00:18:59,548 And you can certainly do this, 246 00:18:59,648 --> 00:19:02,993 watch this screencast while you're setting up your system and it will be very easy. 247 00:19:03,093 --> 00:19:06,861 The first you'll want to get is the desktop environment itself. 248 00:19:06,961 --> 00:19:13,833 So you type in sudo apt-get install xfce4, 249 00:19:13,933 --> 00:19:22,790 so that's sudo apt-get install xfce4 250 00:19:23,337 --> 00:19:28,714 and that will attempt to download it from the repository. 251 00:19:28,820 --> 00:19:38,297 Now the problem is right now that the repository that it thinks it needs is your CD-ROM. 252 00:19:38,397 --> 00:19:44,072 But the CD-ROM that we obtained doesn't have the repository, 253 00:19:44,172 --> 00:19:46,146 the information that we need on it. 254 00:19:46,246 --> 00:19:51,529 So what can do is type in this code, which will change our directory 255 00:19:51,629 --> 00:19:54,892 to a folder called /etc/apt. 256 00:19:54,992 --> 00:19:59,268 We can go into apt and then we can type in this command 257 00:19:59,368 --> 00:20:06,780 sudo pico source.list 258 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,978 and that takes us into a little text editor 259 00:20:10,078 --> 00:20:16,604 It's very easy to understand, you just kind of arrow down about 4 lines. 260 00:20:16,704 --> 00:20:20,922 and add a hash symbol or a pound symbol 261 00:20:21,022 --> 00:20:25,450 right in front of this line that says CD-ROM. 262 00:20:26,647 --> 00:20:31,106 And once you've done that there's not really anything else in here that needs to be done 263 00:20:31,206 --> 00:20:33,206 everything else is okay. 264 00:20:33,306 --> 00:20:34,939 Everything with a hash mark... 265 00:20:35,039 --> 00:20:38,644 Everything with a hash symbol in front of it is a comment. 266 00:20:40,025 --> 00:20:45,700 And those commands down at the bottom with all the highlighted letters, 267 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:51,476 those are the commands we can use in this little text editor. 268 00:20:51,576 --> 00:20:55,131 So to save this, it's called write out. 269 00:20:55,231 --> 00:20:58,055 So you hit the Ctrl key and the o key. 270 00:20:58,155 --> 00:21:00,714 So as we said Ctrl + o 271 00:21:00,814 --> 00:21:08,315 and that will ask us if we want to save it back to our disk. 272 00:21:10,205 --> 00:21:16,551 And then you press return and then you hit Ctrl + x, to get out, to exit. 273 00:21:17,090 --> 00:21:21,853 And now we can type in sudo apt-get xfce4. 274 00:21:21,953 --> 00:21:27,663 And now that's looking online via my Ethernet cable and the Internet 275 00:21:27,910 --> 00:21:31,976 for the XFCE desktop environment. 276 00:21:33,173 --> 00:21:36,171 And it does it all for you, I mean it's just that simple. 277 00:21:36,271 --> 00:21:39,068 So if you're not afraid to do a little bit of typing, 278 00:21:39,168 --> 00:21:41,846 this process is fairly painless. 279 00:21:41,946 --> 00:21:48,279 Ok so it's installed that, so now we're going to sudo apt-get install xorg. 280 00:21:48,379 --> 00:21:51,715 It's xorg, all one word. 281 00:21:51,815 --> 00:21:58,514 Ok, so once it's installed, it will bring up a configuration menu for us. 282 00:21:58,614 --> 00:22:01,611 And up at the top are a very very high resolution 283 00:22:01,711 --> 00:22:05,678 for really new monitors and new graphic cards. 284 00:22:05,778 --> 00:22:09,271 And way down at the bottom are the ones we're probably looking at. 285 00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:11,161 I happen to know this computer pretty well 286 00:22:11,261 --> 00:22:16,498 and I know that the 1024x768 resolution is not going to happen on it. 287 00:22:16,598 --> 00:22:19,861 The 800x600 I definitely know works. 288 00:22:19,961 --> 00:22:25,929 640x480 I know works, I'm gonna hit the right arrow to get over to my Ok. 289 00:22:26,029 --> 00:22:28,833 And I'll press Ok, return rather. 290 00:22:28,933 --> 00:22:37,699 And now I need to set up some preferences in regards to our video display, 291 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:39,975 to really help this along. 292 00:22:40,075 --> 00:22:45,668 So I'm going to change directory in to my /etc/X11 directory. 293 00:22:48,180 --> 00:22:51,882 And that's actually a capital X. 294 00:22:51,982 --> 00:22:58,973 And now I'm going to sudo pico xorg.conf 295 00:22:59,073 --> 00:23:01,485 and now we are in this text editor again. 296 00:23:01,585 --> 00:23:03,432 And again it's really easy to navigate through, 297 00:23:03,532 --> 00:23:06,822 you just press the down arrow to go line by line 298 00:23:06,922 --> 00:23:10,012 or ctrl + v to do sort of a page down kind of thing. 299 00:23:10,112 --> 00:23:16,911 And what we're looking for is a section where it lists all the resolutions 300 00:23:17,011 --> 00:23:20,759 and bit depths for our screen. 301 00:23:20,859 --> 00:23:25,437 There's a lot of information in this file. 302 00:23:25,537 --> 00:23:30,343 But the one we are really interested in right here is default depth. 303 00:23:30,443 --> 00:23:35,889 See how it's in section Screen, it's identifying that as the default screen. 304 00:23:35,989 --> 00:23:40,524 The default depth is 24, I've had a lot of problems with that in the past. 305 00:23:40,624 --> 00:23:43,302 So I go ahead and set it to 16. 306 00:23:43,402 --> 00:23:50,686 And that typically really insures that I get the graphic user interface, 307 00:23:50,786 --> 00:23:57,165 the gui up and running quickly, because I just find that on older monitors, 308 00:23:57,265 --> 00:24:01,479 a bit depth of 24 is just too much for it and it won't work. 309 00:24:01,579 --> 00:24:05,134 So Ctrl+o to save that and Ctrl+x to get out of it 310 00:24:05,234 --> 00:24:09,228 and I'm going to clear the screen. 311 00:24:09,328 --> 00:24:13,176 And now if I hit startx this is the first thing I see 312 00:24:13,276 --> 00:24:16,685 and this is our graphic user interface. 313 00:24:16,785 --> 00:24:22,314 So as you can see it's a bit more dumbed down than what we got on the other CD. 314 00:24:22,414 --> 00:24:25,216 But it's all very customizable. 315 00:24:25,316 --> 00:24:27,599 and the first place to start is up here in the corner, 316 00:24:27,699 --> 00:24:36,209 that's the bar that we can create into more of what it looked like on the other CD. 317 00:24:36,309 --> 00:24:39,288 You can position it anywhere you like, 318 00:24:39,388 --> 00:24:43,953 on a lot of XFCE desktops you'll find it right down at the bottom. 319 00:24:44,053 --> 00:24:45,794 and you can do that. 320 00:24:45,894 --> 00:24:49,314 You can set one up down at the bottom and one up at top, whatever you want. 321 00:24:49,414 --> 00:24:56,381 And then if you right-click on the bar itself, you can start adding items to the panel. 322 00:24:56,481 --> 00:25:02,690 So the first thing I'll add is that little XFCE menu that we had on the other one. 323 00:25:04,306 --> 00:25:08,701 And that's a good place to be able to access all your applications and your settings, 324 00:25:08,801 --> 00:25:13,358 so it's a handy one to have and you can move that around 325 00:25:15,353 --> 00:25:18,286 and you can keep adding to it. 326 00:25:18,873 --> 00:25:22,023 Another good thing to have on your panel is a clock. 327 00:25:22,123 --> 00:25:25,750 That's always a nice feature, you can choose what kind of display you want, 328 00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:29,658 you've got digital or more of a LED look or the analogue. 329 00:25:29,758 --> 00:25:35,127 I prefer the digital and I like seconds to be ticking. 330 00:25:35,227 --> 00:25:37,185 And actually I'm going to move this over, 331 00:25:37,285 --> 00:25:39,981 so if you click on the move then you can drag it to where you want, 332 00:25:40,081 --> 00:25:42,655 and click to release it. 333 00:25:44,271 --> 00:25:46,770 And you can keep adding things. 334 00:25:46,870 --> 00:25:53,214 Another nice thing to have on there are the pictures of all the screens that you've got, 335 00:25:53,314 --> 00:25:56,788 because on Linux you can have multiple desktops. 336 00:25:56,888 --> 00:25:59,813 You can view it in a little square, you can see it in a big row, 337 00:25:59,913 --> 00:26:03,937 I find it kinda handy to see it in a row. 338 00:26:12,322 --> 00:26:14,867 See what else we can add. 339 00:26:17,629 --> 00:26:19,903 It's kind of handy to have a show desktop button, 340 00:26:20,003 --> 00:26:22,003 because that way if you... 341 00:26:22,103 --> 00:26:24,569 I'm going to go ahead and remove this little launcher there, 342 00:26:24,669 --> 00:26:27,512 If you have a lot of programs open you can click on the desktop 343 00:26:27,612 --> 00:26:30,471 and it just shows you the desktop. 344 00:26:34,904 --> 00:26:38,275 And the task list is very handy because this will show you 345 00:26:38,375 --> 00:26:42,277 all of the applications that you have open, 346 00:26:42,377 --> 00:26:44,814 that you have minimized and things like that. 347 00:26:44,914 --> 00:26:47,096 It's quite handy. 348 00:26:47,196 --> 00:26:52,512 And again you can move everything, so I'm going to move this more to the left, 349 00:26:52,612 --> 00:26:56,411 just because that is what I'm used to on Ubuntu systems. 350 00:26:57,756 --> 00:27:04,317 And the other thing that I like to have in my panel is a trash. 351 00:27:04,871 --> 00:27:06,970 Gotta have the trash. 352 00:27:07,070 --> 00:27:09,949 And of course I don't want it there, I like it more on the end, 353 00:27:10,049 --> 00:27:12,333 like on all the Ubuntu systems. 354 00:27:12,433 --> 00:27:14,475 So I'll put it there. 355 00:27:14,575 --> 00:27:18,830 And like I say you can make a top kicker. 356 00:27:18,930 --> 00:27:21,854 And of course you can make a top panel 357 00:27:21,954 --> 00:27:24,812 and customize it pretty much however you want. 358 00:27:24,912 --> 00:27:27,494 You can change the background of the desktop, 359 00:27:27,594 --> 00:27:31,710 And this again, it's got your little file manager in there. 360 00:27:31,810 --> 00:27:35,509 It's got what they call Thunar, that will get you in to your home folder, 361 00:27:35,609 --> 00:27:38,541 let you access all your data, 362 00:27:38,966 --> 00:27:40,437 have a look around. 363 00:27:40,537 --> 00:27:44,498 Right now this is a bare bones system, it doesn't really have a lot on it. 364 00:27:44,598 --> 00:27:53,163 So what you'll want to do is you'll want exit the XFCE graphic environment 365 00:27:53,263 --> 00:27:56,550 and you'll want to do a whole lot more sudo apt-getting 366 00:27:56,650 --> 00:27:58,515 and as you can see in this menu right now, 367 00:27:58,615 --> 00:28:02,477 basically all we've got are settings for the desktop 368 00:28:02,577 --> 00:28:05,096 and that's not a whole lot. 369 00:28:05,196 --> 00:28:07,212 So I'm going to quit out of it. 370 00:28:07,312 --> 00:28:09,759 and what I would do is I would go here 371 00:28:09,859 --> 00:28:15,473 and you could just sudo apt-get install any number of programs. 372 00:28:15,573 --> 00:28:21,205 sudo apt-get install... for instance if you are doing word processing, 373 00:28:21,305 --> 00:28:24,935 you're probably going to want a program called Abiword. 374 00:28:25,035 --> 00:28:27,077 They're all free of course 375 00:28:27,177 --> 00:28:31,394 and I think you'll be very pleased with their performance overall. 376 00:28:31,494 --> 00:28:38,977 So this has been the Xubuntu installation screencast for lower spec machines. 377 00:28:39,077 --> 00:28:41,145 I hope that you have found it very helpful. 378 00:28:41,245 --> 00:28:45,528 I hope that you can resurrect that old computer that you've got sitting around. 379 00:28:45,628 --> 00:28:50,348 Who knows what you'll be able to do with it, with Xubuntu on there. 380 00:28:50,448 --> 00:28:56,088 You can find more screencasts at screencasts.ubuntu.com 381 00:28:56,567 --> 00:29:00,637 And you can always request that we cover another topic, 382 00:29:00,737 --> 00:29:04,265 again at screencasts.ubuntu.com 383 00:29:04,582 --> 00:29:09,409 And you can even get involved and make your own at some point, if you feel up to it. 384 00:29:09,509 --> 00:29:14,437 Either way thanks for joining me and I hope you've enjoyed it.
Attached Files
To refer to attachments on a page, use attachment:filename, as shown below in the list of files. Do NOT use the URL of the [get] link, since this is subject to change and can break easily.You are not allowed to attach a file to this page.