Questions tagged [edubuntu]

Edubuntu is an official flavor of Ubuntu crafted for use in the education world. Use this tag for questions specific to this flavor. Edubuntu was revived as an official flavor with Ubuntu 23.04.

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e2guardian is not loading some websites

I recently installed Edubuntu 23.10 and setup e2guardian without a proxy for use by my kids. It seems to work fine for the most part, i.e., it does block some websites, but some websites are not ...
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Blocking internet access for non-administrative (child) user in Edubuntu

I have setup Edubuntu on a laptop (Edubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur). There is an administrative parent account and a (non-administative) child account. Of course, the application management lets me ...
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Edubuntu with KDE desktop environment

Can somebody help me. Is there an Edubuntu distribution with KDE? If yes, where can I download it? Thank you
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How to install educational software meta-packages on Ubuntu?

I have realized that edubuntu is no longer available for recent Ubuntus, and that the projects has been somehow replaced by ubuntued. Ubuntued seems to provide the following bundle of packages (in ...
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When will Edubuntu 18.04 LTS be released? [duplicate]

May I know when Edubuntu 18.04 LTS will be released? Edubuntu is Ubuntu for education. It skipped 16.04 LTS so the next upgrade is 18.04 LTS.
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Link for download latest Edubuntu

I want to download latest Edubuntu version from the official Edubuntu website, but its links fail. Can you fix it? Sorry for my English and best regards, Stano.
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Language Packages for Edubuntu

On a build I use for classroom computers with Ubuntu Mate 16.04LTS I include ubuntu-edu-primary ubuntu-edu-secondary ubuntu-edu-tertiary. I wish to provide these packages in Spanish. I had done this ...
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How to get rid of edubuntu?

Recently I updated my linux to version 16.04. I had also installed edubuntu 14.04 LTS before and on the logging screen I can see that I am running Edubuntu 14.04 LTS. Also when I shut down my computer ...
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What is the difference between Edubuntu and Ubuntu?

I have always used Edubuntu rather than Ubuntu because I have many children including home educated ones who casually use the education offerings. I appreciate many but not all of the extra offerings. ...
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How do I add an offline encyclopedia to an Edubuntu LiveCD?

I am serving in the Peace Corps in a poor Spanish speaking country. I manage several small computer labs. For reasons of limited networking, old computers, and unreliable electricity, I decided that ...
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How to install Edubuntu package in Ubuntu?

I have installed on my pc Ubuntu 10.10 and Edubuntu 11.04 in a USB. I had a problem with the installation of Edubuntu so I had to install ubuntu 10.10. I want to install the desktop and all programs ...
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Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker

I want to set up Edubuntu for a small non-profit school in South Africa. I'm trying to download the file edubuntu-14.04-dvd-i386.iso.torrent from http://dl.stgraber.org/releases/edubuntu/14.04/ ...
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Installing Basic 256 on Edubuntu [duplicate]

I have recently installed Edubuntu in my school computer lab computers so that the students can become familiar with the Linux environment. It's going well except I tried to install the Basic 256 ...
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I could not install educational desktop on ubuntu 16.04 LTS and cannot find it in software centre

I have a problem with finding play on linux, movie player as in 12.04 in 16.04 LTS version. I can't find educational desktop or edubuntu and these important softwares in new ubuntu software centre of ...
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Wifi automatically disconnects in edubuntu 14.04.5

Wifi signal is very low in ubuntu and if i connect it will automatically disconnects after a few minutes please help me to solve this problem. $ lspci -knn | grep 0280 -A3 – 0d:00.0 Network ...
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Would Epoptes work in a classroom of Ubuntu 16.04 machines which are in a Windows domain?

In my classroom, I have 17 Ubuntu 16.04 workstations plus my own Ubuntu 16.04 machine. They are all members of a Windows Domain. Epoptes is a classroom management tool that enables the teacher to see ...
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software center install button does't work

My software center install botton does't work. I tried changing the server but that didn't work . My Ubuntu version is 16.04.
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Unable to install Ubuntu 14.04

I have a brand new dell inspiron 5559, 4gb ram, uefi , with pre installed Ubuntu. I tried to install a version of edubuntu 14.04 64 bit with live cd in uefi mode, it is showing a dialog box like , "...
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Edubuntu LTSP amd64 not Loading with PXE

I have a computer lab running off of an i386 fat-client image right now. The image is being hosted via LTSP on Edubuntu 14.04.1 LTS with the client being the same desktop. However, the package system ...
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Cannot Use mysql from Guest Account Ubuntu 14.04

I have to install ubuntu in a school's computer lab. I am using an Administrator Account for Admin purposes and enabling guest account for students so that no student can make permanent changes. ...
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Am I reinstalling Edubuntu over a previously corrupt version correctly?

I'm trying to salvage a Compaq Evo N600c by reinstalling Edubuntu over the previous version, this time using the LTSP server package. I believe it had the normal version 7.40 from around 2006 or so. ...
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How much space does Edubuntu take up once installed

Seems like Ubuntu takes up about 2.2 GB after installed on disk, but I can't find any information about an Edubuntu installation, nor how much space the Edubuntu-desktop package takes up. I would like ...
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How to install Edubuntu from normal Ubuntu

Question is, do I need to download the full 2GB Edubuntu .iso file, or can I just add something to Ubuntu? The instructions vary depending on which page one reads Using the Ubuntu Software Center I ...
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Problem on LTSP Thin Client Startup with Edubuntu 14.04

I am working on a project where we have build(for free of course :-)) some computing labs on middle-high schools by the use of some old computers running Edubuntu via LTSP protocol. The client are ...
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How to set up multiseat network through a USB connection?

This year I started a project called the Brighter Future Project. We collected donations in the USA and used them to buy/assemble computers and bring them to other places with more need. We are now in ...
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Removable storage shortcut and a panel shortcuts

I have edubuntu 14.04.01 LTS with gnome. I can't find out how to make 2 things that were previously possible/made on older edubuntu. I want to have a shortcut on the desktop when I insert a ...
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How reset or change admin passwd in EduBuntu 14.04?

My fault... I created a new PC for my family some time ago and I lost the passwd for my (unique) admin user. I can access with other users, but none of them has admin priviledges. I tried the ...
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problem with edubuntu on ubuntu 16.04LTS remove educational desktop

I installed edubuntu desktop educational desktop from terminal on ubuntu 16.04 by command sudo apt-get install playonlinux gnome-mplayer edubuntu-desktop edubuntu-artwork edubuntu-docs edubuntu-fonts ...
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Cannot display this video mode on boot

I have googled around, but nobody seems to have found a solution for this problem. This computer will not boot to Linux cds, so i have installed ubuntu on a hard drive and then put the hard drive in ...
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How to install jdk 8 and NetBeans8 ubuntu 14.04 lts

I've jdk-8u5-linux-i586.gz and netbeans-8.0-linux.sh On ubuntu 14.04 LTS I'm tired try to install someone tell me how in details.
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Edubuntu Deployment and Active Directory Authentication

How I can deploy Edubuntu from one machine to many machines in the same domain and authenticate to Windows Active Directory?
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can kubuntu and edubuntu desktop both be installed?

well, the title says it all... I´ve heard of edubuntu desktop, and I think it´ll be very usefull for my child, so the point is can both desktops live together? thanks in advance
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Do not play mp3 by Rhythmbox [duplicate]

I have newly install edubuntu 14.04 LTS OS in my hp laptop. Now installing all the required software. But while playing mp3 files, it is informed that some plug in will be installed. But while try to ...
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How to disable mouse scrolling in Ubuntu?

How to disable mouse scrolling Without Terminal? And with Terminal? I searched in the System settings menu but I didn't find anything.
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How can I forbid deletion of Windows files when using edubuntu USB live?

I decided to teach to my students (10-13 years old) pc and software using a live USB distribution of edubuntu. I can't erase Windows XP becuase it used by other teachers and using a live USB is faster ...
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Problem upgrading a chroot for FAT Clients (ltsp, edubuntu, and 14.04)

I have an edubuntu server. After I got the fat client image built, I followed the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ThinClientHowtoNAT so that the clients could have access ...
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What to do if the CD I want to use cannot be run on ubuntu/linux

As a high-school, we decided to use Edubuntu on classes, labs etc. Edubuntu is OK with Activ Inspire. But we have a problem. We're from Turkey and we're learning English. So we use this book. But this ...
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Thinclient Boot CD

How can I create a bootable CD to run on an old PC accessing an LTSP server. I have found ample documentation on installing an LTSP server, but no reference on how to create a bootable CD. (PC ...
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Edubuntu Computer Lab

I'm converting my lab at school from Windows 7 to Edubuntu. There are 24 PCs and one teacher's computer wich will also run Edubuntu. There will be about 200 students using the lab. There is a ...
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Unattended Offline Edubuntu 14.04 Install

I am looking for a way to do this offline with Edubuntu 14.04 desktop. It would install much faster and better for large-scale deployments. It seems that contrary to some guides, kickstart is no ...
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Cant find Ubuntu after installation

How can I install Ubuntu along with windows7 with a DVD? I installed it on another drive but it doesn't show up in the startup menu...
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Thin-client Edubuntu 14.04 LTSP

I'm using VBox for this: I already have 2 thin-client PC-1 and PC-2, and in the server I have 3 users: staff, student, archie (admin) What I want to do with the client is, how to make both of them ...
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Edubuntu 14.04 - Custom PXE Boot setup

Using VM, with Edubuntu 14.04 I have just decided to update my PXE Boot server from 12.04 to 14.04 - I do not want to take the other system down to upgrade it. I have created a new system and do a ...
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Accidentally installed Lubuntu and want to revert to Ubuntu

I am using Ubuntu 14.04.1 which is a fresh install of about one month old. I was trying to get 5.1 surround audio to work so I followed the instructions here which suggested the following commands: ...
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removing all traces of edubuntu from my ubuntu install

Hi I installed edubuntu desktop on ubuntu and have decided to get rid of it. There is no problem with the function of my desktop but i would like to know why after removing edubuntu there is still ...
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Ubuntu splash screen changed to edubuntu, why did it happen and how do I change it back?

I recently noticed during a reboot of my machine that a splash page came up saying Edubuntu, which I understand is a particular flavour of Ubuntu. When I installed Ubuntu, it never used to say that, ...
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How to install Edubuntu from Xubuntu in the terminal

We are formatting 20 machines to use in LATAM. We need to install Edubuntu from Xubuntu. How can we install it from the terminal? We're www.notegood.org, and www.comparte.org, NGOs from Barcelona. We ...
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What happened to the Edubuntu website? [closed]

I have been trying to reach the Edubuntu website for about three days now. I keep gettign a 404 error "You don't have permission to access this site." Is there something I'm doing wrong?
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Remove Edubuntu from Triple Boot

I have a computer that has Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04, and Edubuntu installed together. I would like to know how to remove Edubuntu from this configuration and then add the unallocated data to Windows 7 ...
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Edubuntu inappropriate Kernel for installation [duplicate]

I faced this error while Runnign Edubuntu from Virtual Box. I used this edubuntu-13.04-dvd-i386.iso file.