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sudo apt-get install ntp

The advantage over the traditional cron tab approach is less inconsistency in logs for when there are large time corrections. The cost is a little processing power and memory, but for a modern server this is negligible.

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If you do not want to spare the processing power and memory, consider using other approaches documented by the Ubuntu Community or the traditional cron approach.

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If the results show an error or the locale is not set up for UTF-8 as shown above, then you must run the following commands.,

 

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If you are not from Canada, you can choose another language, just make sure to use UTF-8.

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sudo locale-gen en_CA.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

If you changed the locale, log off and then back on.

Finally, verify the locale changes took effect,

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serveradmin@tinman:~$ locale
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
serveradmin@tinman:~$

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Once you have applications and software running and stable, it is advisable to only perform incremental upgrades and judiciously perform dist-upgrades as appropriate.

During the update, all the update installers are downloaded to your system and kept there for future reference in case you need to re-install. With fast connections, this is not necessary. Clean up,

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