Nuke

[VMTN_Admin]

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/127

A full-loaded Ubuntu-based development box

[Noda]

Hi, I'm the one who made this virtual appliance :smileyhappy:

If you have any questions or suggestions about it, please post a comment :smileywink:

[mcjunk]

Hey Noda - I have a question. I'm not familiar with Eclipse, so I thought this would be a good place to learn about it. But, whenever I try and bring up any of the helpinfo, I get an error about "the file /usr/share/eclipse/debian/help.htm could not be found". Can you help me find the help?

[mcjunk]

So, I found a reference that indicates the problem is with "Breezy" and libraries that were available when it was built. However, I went out and downloaded Eclipse 3.1, and running that resolves my problem. Unfortunately I couldn't uninstall or upgrade the existing Eclipse, so I have two versions on this VM. I suspect I just have to learn more about package management on Ubuntu Linux.

[langonej]

The file being server by the torrent is corrupt, I think. I've downloaded it with two different machines using two different torrent clients - both came back "unrecognized compression."

Any ideas?

Also, does this have the latest versions of Gnome, GTK, et cetera?

[langonej]

The file being server by the torrent is corrupt, I think. I've downloaded it with two different machines using two different torrent clients - both came back "unrecognized compression."

Any ideas?

Also, does this have the latest versions of Gnome, GTK, et cetera?

[Lelfe]

Hello,

I'm using a laptop with an azerty keyboard.

But no matter as I try I'm not able to set the keyboard to a French layout (stuff I easily do in Ubuntu).

Do you know a solution to resolve this problem?

Moreover, if this work, I will find that this appliance is the best I've tested!

Thx

NB : when first booting it ask me:

"The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard settings. Wich set would you like to use?"

And so I have to choose between X and GNOME settings; but it doesn't seem to make any difference

[Noda]

camroe> user: nuke, pass: nuke should be okay to add users and do admin things like adding package as it have sudo rights. But if you need to get root, just use the user: root (enter "su" in a terminal) with the pass: root :smileywink:

mcjunk> the eclipse version installed should already be the 3.1 version. But maybe i just dropped the help files to shrink some more the distro, but i don't remember to have done that. You can always uninstall the existing version before reinstalling eclipse, so you won't have the 2 versions on the VM. I'll dig this problem, thanks for your reporting.

langonej> use 7-Zip as indicated on the main page of the appliance to extract the VM from the archive. The Gnome & GTK version were the latest available from the official updates at the moment of the VM was uploaded.

lelfe> this VM was build originally on a french install, so it shouldn't be a problem to put the keyboard in an azerty layout :smileywink: enter "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"

then if it doesn't work enter "setxkbmap -layout fr-latin9".

and if after that it still doesn't work, enter "sudo nedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf"

then modify the section "inputDevice" to match this one:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Driver "kbd"

Option "CoreKeyboard"

Option "XkbRules" "xorg"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "fr-latin9"

EndSection

maybe i'll add a script in a later release to make this easier :smileywink:

[paksao]

hi,

any idea why an attempt to upgrade via 'update manager' to the new distribution release 'dapper' gives the error 'invalied package information: after your package info was updated the essential package ubuntu base cannot be found anymore ...'

[paksao]

i made some progress in case anyone has the same problem:

1)add the "Ubuntu 5.10 Updates" repository using the Synaptic Package Manager (Settings | Repositories). Then a full update (Which included the update manager)

2) install ubuntu-desktop package and try update again

[frithjof]

nuke.zip on torrent is corrupt

=============================================

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 2006-09-08 12:37 .

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 32768 1970-01-01 01:00 ..

-rw-rr 1 root root 542798448 2006-09-08 13:55 nuke.zip

FrithL92:/media/usbdisk/transport # unzip nuke

Archive: nuke.zip

skipping: nuke.ico `(null)' method not supported

skipping: nuke.txt `(null)' method not supported

skipping: nuke.vmdk `(null)' method not supported

skipping: nuke.vmx `(null)' method not supported

================================================

[frithjof]

OKOK 7-Zip was the magic word

[utilitarian]

any plans to add apache,mysql & php ?

[inetmug]

Hi Noda,

I need to do something similar to what you have done, but then I need to put our application on it, and open source ESB. What impact did the "theme" bit have in reducing the ubuntu size.

After starting with the desktop image of 6.06, removing open office and a few other things looks like it got down to about 800MB. Can you elaborate on what it is your did remove?

What effect does the 7G compression have on the download size? We are mainly intereested in reducing the download size, not the runnable image size.

Also, what effect does making it a torrent file have on the actualy download size if any?

Thanks.

[mauroz]

I am not having much luck using torrent.

After the "Please be patient" message, I get "The connection has timed out. The server at torrent.vmware.com is taking too long to respond."

Is there another way to get this machine? I am hoping for ftp or http.

[DWendelboe]

Would have been a nice package if the developer wouldn't have fooled around with English translation settings to "Elmer Fudd". Grow up *******.

[mcjunk]

I'm not sure why someone else rated it two stars. Would be nice to read why. I've just got it and checked it out. Seems okay, though I haven't started "developing" with it. It'd be nice if there was a few sample projects in some of the IDEs. (For us with minimal experience.)

[Noda]

It's a nice ideay to put sample projetcs and examples along with the IDEs :smileyhappy: I'll add it for the next version :smileywink: thanks for your suggestions and support

[Ravi_Teja]

Interesting app. Nice work

[camroe]

Hey all,

This may be a stupid question but I've been playing around and I can't seem to add packages (need a password - 'nuke' doesn't work), can't add user accounts etc (need to run as root). Anyone know where to get the passwords ?

Cam

[tomasdore]

I have found this VM to be useful, so thanks for making it. It does look pretty too! I am using it with Xampp.

[paksao]

hi,

any idea why an attempt to upgrade via 'update manager' to the new distribution release 'dapper' gives the error 'invalied package information: after your package info was updated the essential package ubuntu base cannot be found anymore ...'

[hangal]

H,i,

how about adding sun's jdk 1.5 to this appliance (now that its open source) ? the current java 5 is only gnu java i think.

[hangal]

Also, I have a 19" widescreen display - how do I configure this appliance to take advantage of the full screen - currently it uses 1024x768; also the available display resolutions are only upto 1024 x 768. Ideally, I would like to use 1440 x 900.

Thanks.

[gooberp00h]

hangal, not sure if you figured this out yet, but in the nuke.txt file it says:

Q: How can I change the screen resolution?

R: enter "sudo nedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and replace the resolution

"1024X768" with the desired resolution in the "screen" section.

this screen section is near the bottom of the file.

[mjpg]

Hello - thanks for a nice app.

I cannot set the keyboard layout to match my UK 101 keyboard.

I tried the Gnome settings to chnage the keyboard andf layout and the suggestion earlier in this forum to use the X setup. Neither worked I'm afraid.

Any suggestions?

I downloaded the appliance today.

[stevenjeffries]

How do you download the initial file? I click on the link and get a page that says Please be patient... BUt nothing ever happens after that.

What do I need? I'm using XP Pro with IE 7

I also tried with Solaris 10 with Firefox and got same result.

[spaghetticode]

I've had trouble downloading from the torrent. I've tried twice in two different clients. Both times it stops...

Any ideas?

[itsme2003]

I don't see a download link on this page or a link to a torrent.

[Positronic]

I'm trying to find the download link. There isn't one on the page anymore. Can anyone help me with that?

Thank you very much!

[Calambres]

Hi,

Do you know how can I download your Ubuntu.vmx because I was not able to download it from here:

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/127

thanks!

calambres