#  How to install Ubuntu 22.04 on Contabo?

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**Created:** [June 15, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998 "2024-06-15T12:14:55Z")\
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What are the steps for those who have a contabo account? During installation, the error appears:  
“sudo: unable to resolve host [box.example.net](http://box.example.net): Name or service not known”

And at the end it appears:  
\<!doctype html\>

500 Internal Server Error
# Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.

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**Author:** ![gezza](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9dc877/32.png) [@gezza](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/gezza)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/2 "2024-06-15T13:58:42Z")

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Is your DNS setup OK?

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I am on contabo and you need to enable ipv6 first. There is a help article on that.  
After this it is smooth sailing.

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/4 "2024-06-16T04:19:58Z")

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I just had the same “500 internal server error”… .very cryptic situation.

Too bad the install doesn’t instead say “Hey, set up ipv6 and then try again”

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> Too bad the install doesn’t instead say “Hey, set up ipv6

A normal Ubuntu 22.04 install does have IPv6 setup. You struck one of the providers who supply a broken image 🙄

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**Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/6 "2024-06-17T14:41:24Z")

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Thanks, I’ll look into how to configure IPv6.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/7 "2024-06-19T15:37:10Z")

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> [@Issue with contabo](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/issue-with-contabo/11703/2):
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> I did multiple installs on contabo and never had an issue. Did you enable ipv6? This needs to be done explicitly.

Click on the link above ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/8 "2024-06-30T07:24:06Z")

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I’ve hit the same issue, I did notice that IPv6 was disabled before the install. But the instructions state that we should disable IPv6

> If you have a choice, choose a location for your machine that is near you — it’ll be faster! And if disabling IPv6 is an option, disable it.

I’ve enabled IPv6 and I’m still getting the 500 error, time to trawl some logs.

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/9 "2024-06-30T10:49:56Z")

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I’ve reinstalled the OS, enabled IPV6 and started again and all has worked fine this time 🙂

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**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-install-ubuntu-22-04-on-contabo/11998/10 "2024-08-09T10:50:12Z")

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