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Tuesday 15 July 2008, 5:55 PM
Noobuntu!!
I’ve had to reinstall Ubuntu Linux (Hardy Heron) on my rusty ThinkPad X60s. I did have great pretensions to create sweet music using Ubuntu Studio but life at The Ministry intervened, and now I need to set up a LAMP server so that I can work remotely and on the long train journey to and from The Village.
After intalling the standard desktop version, I realised I didn’t have Apache, MySQL or PHP. And none of them configured. Oops.
All the tutorials I was reading were saying to install the server edition of Ubuntu. Double oops.
Luckily, I read in a comment that you can just use the command:
sudo tasksel install lamp-servertasksel “groups some packages by tasks and offers the user an easy way to install the packages”
And even cooler, in a geekness sortofway, you can view all the available groups by simply typing:
sudo taskselHmmmmm
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Jake - Thanks, it's nice little tips like this that turn out not to be so little at all!
I've just been reading that IBM have unloaded more shares depressing the Lenovo shares but that Lenovo will, in the longer, term come through OK because of the quality of their products. I have a Lenovo X61 on which Ubuntu installs and runs faultlessly and, to be fair, pretty speedily.
It occurs to me that this might be because of a higher interest in Linux in China and, in consequence , hardware built to support Linux.
