No I'm not going to tell you how to follow the installation procedure for
one of the many ISO images available at
"http://mirror.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/".
Internet search will provide
A few suggestions I do have are:
So go ahead and do the base install, stopping just after the first reboot.
With the support of
University of Waterloo
School of Computer Science,
the
CS Club
provides an official Canadian mirror
(mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca)
of many sites.
CSCF setup makes use of this
Ubuntu repository
as their main Apt sources configuration file.
Use this repository for up-to-date versions of
Acroread, Flash, Skype, UEX, SUN Java, OpenBravo...
Information from
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/canonical_partner
These packages allow people to easily duplicate the Linux environments used within the
Cheriton School of Computer Science.
sudo apt-get remove dmraid
Now perform the setup by clicking the "Install Ubuntu ..." desktop icon
(upper left corner of screen).
Updating the Apt Repository Sources to use the CS sponsered local mirror as
well as the medibuntu and wine repositories.
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
wget -q -O - \
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups/os/ubuntu/UW-CS-common/etc/apt/sources.list
| sed -e "s/CodeName/`lsb_release -c -s`/" \
| sudo -s tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/uwcs-depot.list > /dev/null
if [ `lsb_release -sr` \> 22 ]; then
wget -q -O - \
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups/certs/depot.pub.gpg.key \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/depot.pub.asc > /dev/null
else
wget -O - \
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups/certs/depot.pub.gpg.key \
| sudo apt-key add -
fi
wget -q -O - \
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups/os/ubuntu/UW-CS-common/etc/apt/sources.list.d/uwcs-depot.list \
| sed -e "s/CodeName/`lsb_release -c -s`/" \
| sudo -s tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/uwcs-depot.list > /dev/null
sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list \
http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list \
&& sudo apt-get --quiet update \
&& sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated \
install medibuntu-keyring \
&& sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu
sudo apt-get -y purge blcr-dkms