Hi there, I have a need to deploy an Ubuntu Mate desktop to an Amazon EC2 instance. And rather than going through the process of building locally and then converting to an AMI. I know that I can install ubuntu-mate-desktop and go from there, but I’m looking to have the result as close as possible to the ubuntu-mate ISO (they do great work). What would be the best way to do this? Is there a package list, etc?
thoughts?
You mean this?
You also want the package ubuntu-mate-core.
Hi @noffin ,
you could try installing a stock Ubuntu Mate system first then add the Ubuntu Server bits & pieces with the following terminal command:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-server
This package depends on all of the packages in the Ubuntu Server system
It is also used to help ensure proper upgrades, so it is recommended that it not be removed.
It might also be wise to install Synaptic package manager once Mate is installed to check for other (possible) server packages!:
sudo apt-get install synaptic
I had to do it the other way around as this is a test in AWS ec2, and I’m hoping to avoid having to build a true AMI did a quick test. So I deployed the 16.04 Amazon based server AMI and added the desktop overtop. Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, I think I’m pretty close. The deviation I had was that I installed the raw mate desktop. Once I realized I didn’t use the Ubuntu-mate* packages, I just had a look in the cache, that filled a lot of the gaps. I think I’m good.