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By: Development configuration tips for Ubuntu | Ubuntu-News

Development configuration tips for Ubuntu | Ubuntu-News — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:36:53 +0000

[...] I just setup my machine at home with Ubuntu 8.10 which was so easy think I saved hours off the time it would normally take with Windows. So much is already installed and ready to go and with apt it?s super quick to download and install extra things things like MySQL, PHP, Apache, Java etc More here [...]

By: Mark Lynch

Mark Lynch — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:37:21 +0000

Hi Michael, Nice tutorial.

One thing – I’m pretty sure you don’t need: libapache2-mod-auth-mysql – it’s only if you are using http authentication against a mysql server. You don’t need it if you just want php to talk to mysql, for that you just need php5-mysql

@Luke – re aptitude over apt-get. aptitude is just a console ui for apt-get, under the hood it still calls apt-get to do installs etc. aptitude is comparable to synaptic. I.e. it’s great when you are not sure what you need to install as you can search friendly descriptions. But apt-get is the man for command line work

Cheers,
Mark

By: Michael Sharman

Michael Sharman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:31:14 +0000

@Luke – I haven’t heard that and it looks as though (judging by the examples) apt-get is more common on the Intrepid (8.10) page: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Intrepid

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:24:44 +0000

Doesn’t Ubuntu favor aptitude over apt-get nowadays? I believe apt-get was deprecated and only available for backwards compatibility. I could be wrong through…

By: starenka

starenka — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:42:53 +0000

I’m pretty sure, you don’t have to apt-get them. You already have them if you use tasksel. So the most easy way seems to tasksel and use a2enmod… right?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:08:02 +0000

You may need to activate individual mods (after you apt-get them) but again there is a inbuilt tool a2enmod modName that will create the symlinks for you.

By: starenka

starenka — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:13:14 +0000

I don’t quite remember. They’re installed for sure, but maybe not enabled as default. Enabling php or mod_rewrite is just matter of symlinking those files from mod_available to mod_enabled. You got it done in a jiffy.

By: Michael Sharman

Michael Sharman — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:54:46 +0000

@starenka – nice, I didn’t know of tasksel before! For other interested in what this is you can read more here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel

I wonder if you still need to activate particular modules like mod_rewrite, or the php connector to mysql.

I guess if you don’t want to use tasksel you can always do:

sudo aptitude install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

By: starenka

starenka — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:04:11 +0000

Ain’t it more easy to install LAMP with “tasksel” ?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:01:22 +0000

I love Ubuntu/Debian aswell. To make it a tiny bit easier Debian/Ubuntu has a2ensite which will manually create the sym link for sites-enabled ie: a2ensite mysites.conf