Persee Ubuntu 16.04 setup

persee_ubuntu_setup.txt

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*** 1. Enable autologin ***
https://askubuntu.com/questions/162722/how-can-i-enable-autologin-for-my-user-account-when-the-option-is-not-there

Open this file with root  /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

Then append the following code:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
autologin-user=username

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*** 2. Set up ssh ***
https://askubuntu.com/questions/162391/how-do-i-fix-my-locale-issue
https://askubuntu.com/questions/892447/start-ssh-automatically-on-boot

What finally helped was putting to the file /etc/environment:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

For some reason it was missing. The outputs for locale and other commands appeared like the variables were properly defined. In other words don't take for granted all the basic stuff is declared where it should be declared.

sudo systemctl enable ssh
sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults
sudo systemctl enable ssh.socket

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*** 3. Configure hostname ***
https://askubuntu.com/questions/59458/error-message-sudo-unable-to-resolve-host-none

That the /etc/hostname file contains just the name of the machine.

That /etc/hosts has an entry for localhost. It should have something like:

 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain localhost
 127.0.1.1    my-machine
 
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 *** 4. Install Bonjour / zeroconf ***
 https://learn.adafruit.com/bonjour-zeroconf-networking-for-windows-and-linux/overview
 
 sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
 
 Optionally, to show up in the OS X Finder:
 sudo apt-get install netatalk
 
 To add zeroconf support to Windows, Apple's version comes with iTunes or can be installed separately:
 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL999