How to install eyeOS in Ubuntu 9.04

EyeOS is an opensource WebDesktop. It enables you to access a desktop environment on your browser. A brief info can be found here.EyeOS is very easy to install. It only requires Apache and PHP5 to be properly installed and configured.

In order to install apache2 on Ubuntu use the following command.

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install apache2

and to install PHP5 use this

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install php5

In order to configure apache to handle PHP5 we will need to install PHP5 module for apache. It might get installed automatically along with PHP5 but just in case this doesn't happen one can use this command to install it.

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

After installing all the required softwares we need to check if everything is working properly. For apache2, open your web browser and try to open this url http://localhost/. If you see "It works" then you can be assured that apache2 is working properly. Before checking for PHP5 lets enable the PHP5 module for apache.

[shredder12]$ sudo a2enmod php5

This will enable the PHP5 module.

Lets now download the eyeOS package. Use this to download any of the archived package. Extracting that file will create a folder name "eyeOS". Now move this folder to /var/www/

[shredder12]$ sudo mv eyeOS  /var/www/

After that try to open the page http://localhost/eyeOS/. If you get an option of dowloading a PHP file then it means that PHP5 is not configured properly. To configure it properly follow this tutorial.

If you see a login page then congrats you have successfully installed eyeOS. After that you may follow the user manual provided by them.

P.S. - This manual is to help you install eyeOS in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) step by step but similar steps can be taken to install eyeOS on most of linux distros.