CERN Recipes for Ubuntu users

manuel · September 30, 2019, 2:56pm

There is a set of recipes on how to use Ubuntu at CERN in the internet. You can find guidelines on:

How to print from Ubuntu at CERN at: https://twiki.cern.ch/Main/UbuntuPrinting
How to configure the AFS client at:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ABPComputing/AFSDebian
How to use CERN ROOT on Ubuntu 18.04 at: http://twosquarepies.com/blog/2018/11/12/cern-root-on-ubuntu-18-04/

Users of this forum are encouraged to shared their sources of documentation by means of posts like this one.

achintya · February 24, 2020, 1:18pm

Thanks for this, Manuel!

Any idea how one can install the CERNbox client on Ubunut? I’ve managed to successfully upgrade from 18.04 with the client already installed, but cannot install it at home on a machine that is on 19.10.

Cheers,
Achintya

manuel · February 24, 2020, 1:34pm

The instructions to install CERNBox in Ubuntu are available at:

https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/linux.html

Cheers;
manuel

achintya · February 24, 2020, 1:52pm

Oh, they just added support for recent versions a few days ago! I couldn’t install it late last year. Thanks for pointing me to the link.

vasilis · February 28, 2020, 8:36am

With black text on the blue background

as well the black ubuntu logo

I can barely read the text. I’ve changed my theme to light but it doesn’t apply it for this thread.

emungala · June 16, 2021, 2:55pm

Hey Manuel. I seem to be having trouble installing CERNBox on my Linux Mint computer. The version I’m currently using is based on Ubuntu 20.04 so I thought those Ubuntu packages would work, but they don’t. Is there a way I could still install CERNBox on my computer? For some reason, accessing it through lxplus is very slow.

manuel · June 21, 2021, 2:20pm

Have you followed instructions at: CERNBOX for Ubuntu 20.04 ?

Cheers;
manuel