Installation

After you decide how you want to set up your network and connect all the hardware, you can get to the task of installing the software. In Ubuntu, the LTSP software is available for installation in two ways. If you are repurposing a server that already has a current release of Ubuntu installed on it, you install the ltsp-server-standalone and openssh-server packages from the Ubuntu repositories and run the following to set up the environment:

matthew@seymour:~$ sudo ltsp-build-client

If your server is a 64-bit system and your thin clients use a different processor architecture, you want to run that command with the --arch option, as follows:

matthew@seymour:~$ sudo ltsp-build-client ...

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