My Linux Mint Install

Goal

These are some notes of my install of Linux Mint ( after dissatisfaction with Ubuntu ) on a small fan-less PC. I want this box to run a variety of background utility tasks. Some of these are file services, media services and various iot functions.

I did not want a headless install, in fact I want it to be fairly similar to my windows desktop, and I wanted to be able to use Python on it much like I do on my windows machine and my various raspberry pi machines.

While I wanted a "head" on the machine I mainly wanted the "head" to run via VNC on a remote box. So if you want to do something similar this is what I did.

In what follows I have tried to add sudo to commands that need it, and commands are prefixed by >>. << or # May be used to indicate end of the command and the beginning of comment. Menu navigation is often indicated by ->

Install

Know Your Machine

• boot menu f11
• boot configure f12
• Mint version xxxx it is a version of debion
• Mint desktop cinomint
• Mint text editor: xed
• Name of computer on network: Bulldog mint russ
• Configure options
  • package manager
  • admin -> menu
  • synapatic package manager
  • software manager
  • terminal: apt, or apt-get, or pip, or conda

Install

• download is and make usb stick with on win with etcher
• boot use boot manager to boot from usb then install select option to install, the wizard should get you through it
• bring the system up to data menu >> admin >> update manager

Remote Access

Real Simple

Note you can exchange text with the new machine via the internet ( a wiki is useful ) or a flash dirive. This allow exact copying of terminal commands.

VNC Remote Desktop

• info from https://thelinuxexperiment.com/enabling-remote-desktop-sharing-vnc-on-linux-mint-19/

    >> sudo apt install vino
    >> gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false
    >> gsettings set org.gnome.Vino prompt-enabled false

Once that’s done we can start the server using the command:

     >> /usr/lib/vino/vino-server

SSH

========= ssh =========

enable ssh on mint

• install >> sudo apt update

• • install >> sudo apt install -y openssh-server

The SSH service will start automatically upon the completion of package installation. You can verify the SSH server package installation by running the following command.

• run check status >> sudo systemctl status ssh

• configure

• • By default, root login over SSH is not allowed on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian. But, you can enable root login by editing the SSH configuration file. Edit the sshd_config file.

• • >> sudo xed /etc/ssh/sshd_config << Set the PermitRootLogin to Yes