HOWTO Install eyeOS on Ubuntu Gutsy

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All you need to install eyeOS on this system is a working Internet connection. You will need to use a very few lines of Terminal, but they are cleanly explained in this tutorial, so no big technical knowledgments are required.

Step by step HOWTO

Step 1

Log in into your Ubuntu account

Step 2

Open Synaptic, the Package Manager.

Step 3

Install the package php5, and all its dependencies. In this step, Ubuntu will download and install all needed stuff for making eyeOS work, from the web server (Apache2) to PHP v5 and its connectors. You may look for php5 package trough the Search button.

Step 4

Wait for Synaptic to finish downloading and installing.

Step 5

Once installed, open Firefox. You can quickly launch it from the top bar. Once opened, navigate to http://www.eyeos.org/downloads and download the latest version of eyeOS.

Step 6

We need admin rights at this step. Open a terminal (you can open it from the Accessories menu) and type sudo nautilus. A file browser (Nautilus) will open, but this time, with full rights over the system. Please be careful from this step!

Step 7

Go Up until you reach your system's root ( / ). Once there, go to var, then to www and then to apache2-default. You will see some default files there. You can remove them, since they are the default webpage that apache puts to your system to let you know that the web server is up and runing.

Step 8

Move there the eyeOS package (it will probably be in your Desktop) and uncompress it by right-clicking it and selecitng Extract here.

Step 9

Once extracted, right-click the new folder created (eyeOS) and click to Properties. The properties window will open.

Go to the Permissions tab and change the Owner and Group to www-data (probably the last one in the list).

Click Apply permissions to the enclosed files and close this window.

Step 10

Open Firefox and navigate to http://localhost/apache2-default/eyeOS/ . The eyeOS installer will open. Type the asked stuff, and click Install eyeOS.

Step 11

We're done! Welcome to your new eyeOS server.

From now, you can access your eyeOS server from http://localhost/apache2-default/eyeOS/ from your local computer, or from http://YOUR_IP/apache2-default/eyeOS/ from your private network or even from Internet (if you have your router configured to redirect the port 80 to your computer.

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