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{{Warning|Dapper (i.e. 6.06) is no longer supported. Use newer Ubuntu templates.}} The ubuntu template is a openvz an OpenVZ [[OS template ]] that allows you to run ubuntu dapper on in your vps[[container]], as opposed to the normal debian Debian stable or fedoraFedora. ''Please note, that this package is really is minimal, you must even install your own language pack!'' 

The ubuntu template includes more up-to-date software. For example, it allows you to install apache 2.0.55, php 5, mysql 5, apache mono and more. Also, if you are used to using ubuntu as a linux Linux distribution for your desktop, you would be more familiar with it, as they use the same exact packages and repositories. Also, you can just follow the [http://wiki.ubuntu .com Ubuntu wiki's easilly ] easily to install your software, as ubuntu has really good documentation([http://wiki.ubuntu.com Ubuntu wiki])In addition, ubuntu dapper LTS has a 5 year time period of support.  

*You may download it from one of the following places:* [http://dudcoredownload.openvz.netorg/contrib/template/ubuntuprecreated/ubuntu-6.06-i386-minimal.tar.gz heredownload.openvz.org]* One of the [[download mirrors]].  You must place this file in <tt>/vz/template/cache/</tt> directory on your [[hardware node]]. ==How do I create a vps container that uses this template?==*All you have to do is simply create a normal vps container but specify ubuntu-6.06-i386-minimal as the template. For example:

''Please note that in order to get the correct network settings and more, you must copy the debian configuration file(debian.conf) to ubuntu.conf. This is because Openvz does not yet reconize that ubuntu is its own os, and falls back to another linux distribution. Usually this file is located in /etc/vz/dists but can very depending on your distribution. For CentOS/Fedora this will be located in /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/dists. See {{bug|190}}.'' ==How do I set it up?(for the user==You can either do those modifications on already existing container, or , if you want these changes to be incorporated into your customizing template, create a temporary container, do these changes, stop the container and tar the result into the same template)==file. * Well, the first thing you *must* do is install a language pack. You can do this by typing in <pre> apt-get install language-pack-en </pre>*Then you should create another user. To do this, just type in <pre> adduser bob </pre>*You will probably want to install some other basic utilities: <pre>apt-get install man traceroute wget</pre>*Then all you have to do is follow the ubuntu tutorials here: [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ApacheMySQLPHP here]

<pre>Bug alert: I (Shane Hathaway) got the following error when I tried to install language-pack-en.  debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptordpkg: dpkg - error: PATH is not set. I patched the problem by typing "export PATH". Even though the path is set, for somereason it is not exported by default. I also added "export PATH" to /etc/profile .</pre> Then you should create another user. To do this, just type in <pre> adduser bob </pre>You will probably want to install some other basic utilities: <pre>apt-get install man traceroute wget</pre>Then all you have to do is follow the ubuntu tutorials [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ApacheMySQLPHP here]. ==Packages allready already installed==

==Network issues==If the template seems to have no working network it most probably needs more time to bring up the interfaces. The issue is, that<pre>/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate</pre>wants to set the clock during network start and runs into a very long timeout. Since ntpdate is not needed at all inside a container this script can simply be deleted. And Magic - the container starts up as fast as I would expect it to and all network interfaces are up and running at once. ==Bugs==Any problems with this template? Post either on the [[Talk: {{PAGENAME}}|discussion page ]] or on the forums.Or post on my userpage [[User_talk:Dmb]]. == See also ==* [[Debian template creation]] howto. == External links ==* [http://ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu web site]* [http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu wiki] 

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