These are my notes for various Ubuntu tasks. I'm still somewhat new to it (Q2 2010), but it's similar enough to other distros I've used that it's easy to pickup.

Other descriptions:

• Ubuntu cloning
• Ubuntu install cloning
• etc

sudo dpkg –-get-selections > packages.txt

Copy packages.txt to the remote machine

sudo dpkg –-set-selections < packages.txt
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Assuming:

• User Id is 1000
• /mnt/hgfs folder exists
• VMware Tools are installed
• You don't need the mount points available at boot

.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000,nobootwait 0 0

user is a non-root account that the vncserver will be running as

1. Login as user
2. vncpasswd
3. sudo nano /etc/rc.local

su - user -c "cd /home/user/ && vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24" 2>/dev/null &

1. nano /home/user/.vnc/xstartup

Include the following:

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
#x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
#x-window-manager &
# Fix to make GNOME work
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
/etc/X11/Xsession