Revision as of 13:42, 7 October 2011

In this page we will list configurations that are common to all machines used at Vislab, particularly Linux machines that work with the iCub robot.

Operating system installation

choose Main server (rather than Portugal server, which is not always reliable) as the software repository
- on desktop machines, System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories -> Download from: Main server
- on server machines, remove all the "pt." strings from /etc/apt/sources.list with the following command: sudo sed -i 's/pt.//g' sources.list
update packages (including kernel) with sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
add icub user if not done already: sudo adduser icub followed by sudo usermod -aG admin icub to give it sudo privileges

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 = Operating system installation =
+== Operations after first boot ==
+* choose Main server (rather than Portugal server, which is not always reliable) as the software repository
+** on desktop machines, System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories -> Download from: Main server
+** on server machines, remove all the "pt." strings from /etc/apt/sources.list with the following command: <code>sudo sed -i 's/pt.//g' sources.list</code>
+* update packages (including kernel) with <code>sudo apt-get update</code>; <code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code>
+* add icub user if not done already: <code>sudo adduser icub</code> followed by <code>sudo usermod -aG admin icub</code> to give it sudo privileges
 = Other operations =