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Whilst trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on an old Dell Dimension 1100 the Ubuntu installer would start up and once it got to the stage to do the partitioning parted would error.  parted reported to check /var/log/syslog for more information.
The error was along the lines of:
Ubiquity: parted_server error while loading shared libraries /lib/libparted-1.8.so.12
Thinking that the [...]

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URLs: http://www.realvnc.com , http://www.ubuntutips.net/node/7
On a plain 6.06 LTS server I wanted to install Xserver to test
something out, so, I did the following. The following is a quick
way of installing xwindows/xserver and accessing via VNC. There
are many places for improvement/customisation etc.
I executed the following command:
apt-get install gdm zenity ubuntu-artwork edubuntu-artwork xubuntu-default-settings gnome2-user-guide gnome-panel nautilus [...]

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