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• Download the latest Ubuntu TLS minimum CD from this link
• Make bootable USB disk (Yi's approach):
  • Format a USB disk to FAT32 under windows
  • Download unetbootin, run it and load ubuntu iso file into it.

BIOS needs to setup to allow booting from USB disk

• Go to Boot menu in BIOS interface and move to “CSM” item, and make sure you have the following setup

• Move to “Secure Boot” item, and make sure you have the following setup

• Exit/Save

• Boot the computer(rainbow), press F12, boot from UFEI USB disk, and choose Install Ubuntu Server.

Choose English as language, the U.S. as country. 
Always continue.
Choose the first network card: ‘enp0s319f6: Intel corporation Ethernet [2] 1215-V’.
Set the Hostname(rainbow), username.
Always continue, No encryption.
Choose East of the U.S. as the time zone.
Unmount partitions that are in use? Yes.

• Partition disks

From to /Don’t assign a swap partition, don't update the system auto.

• Software selection

• Follow the instruction to finish the installation, and reboot into the new system

• Log into root
• Add group “xue”

groupadd -g 3500 xue
  * Edit passwd to change the belongings of the first user
   vim /etc/passwd
   into:yxue,3568(user id):3500(group id)
   *change the group belongings of folder yxue
   chown yxue:xue xue

• Add user by running cmd/adduser.sh
• Setup sudo

apt-get install vim
visudo

Add the following block in the text file invoked by visudo command

## Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
yxue ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
zhouqiao ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
panying ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

cp ~yxue/.vimrc .

*Edit sourcelist
*change Ubuntu mirror into http://mirror.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn,uncomment security alternatives
    vim /etc/apt/sourcelist
    apt-get update

• Xfce4

sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-terminal

• GNU compiler

sudo apt-get install gcc gfortran g++

• Python packages

sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base libopenblas-dev
sudo update-alternatives --all  
  * to make sure openblas becomes the default BLAS library
  * path priority is */vim.basic > */vim.gtk3-py2 > */vim.gonme
sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-matplotlib python-scipy ipython ipython-notebook

• Make sure that numpy is correctly linked to openblas

cd /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/linalg
ldd lapack_lite.x86_64-linux-gnu.so
*u will find this
libopenblas.so.0 => /usr/lib/libopenblas.so.0 (0x00007ff6ebd1b000)

• if it points to openblas, then okay!

• Disable screensaver to save CPU resources

sudo dpkg --purge xscreensaver
sudo dpkg --purge xscreensaver-data
    dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove xscreensaver-data which isn't installed???

• Common X11 applications

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser leafpad mlterm rox-filer xpdf gimp imagemagick vim-gnome links geeqie

• Install boost

apt-get install libboost-all-dev

• Type the following commands

sudo apt-get install lib32z1
sudo apt-get install libx11-6:i386
sudo apt-get install libstdc++6:i386  # for sparky
sudo apt-get install libxext6:i386  # for nmrPipe

# fonts needed for nmrDraw
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi

# for running dtrek2jpeg only
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386

• http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goserver

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

vi /etc/network/interface
    dns-nameservers 166.111.8.28 166.111.8.29 #add this line to appointed network interface
/etc/init.d/networking restart

• Ref1 | Ref2

sudo netplan generate

sudo vim /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml

 enp0s8:				
      dhcp4: no
      dhcp6: no
      addresses: [192.168.56.110/24, ]
      gateway4:  192.168.56.1
      nameservers:
              addresses: [8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4]
 
sudo netplan apply             
 

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