i can't seem to get ubuntu to work......
2007-03-04 01:26:32 · 4 answers · asked by gerfuls 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Personally I would recommend Fedora core, the community based Redhat distro.
http://fedora.redhat.com/
All the LAMP packages come on the installation disk and if you choose the server installation method it will automatically install them for you (except PHP I think, unless you meant Perl).
I have had some problems with Ubuntu distros in the past, usually because of corrupted ISOs. Check your download sources and checksum your downloads to see what might be causing your troubles.
Also use a bootdisk - such as Ubuntus - to do a memory (RAM) check, I had some corrupted memory that caused a lot of problems with Ubuntu.
Good luck.
2007-03-04 01:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by James R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 08:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to try an alternate distribution, I'm still a fan of Red Hat and Fedora (both are from the same company, but you have to pay for Red Hat Linux these days, Fedora is the freely available derivative) they're a very friendly setup.
Truth be told, Ubuntu is currently my favorite (Switched from Fedora, actually) but I often find myself annoyed by the way Debian and Ubuntu package applications. They sometimes put things under strange names and will sometimes do nonstandard things the packager seems to regard as "improvements" where I would tend to differ. If you want to keep giving them a try, here's the list of packages I installed on top of a straight Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop CD to make a LAMPP server:
apache2
perl
mysql-server
libapache2-mod-php5
php5-mysql
The above is if you want to use Ubuntu's build of Apache, Perl, Mysql and PHP5.
If you want to build yourself from source, here's some of the dependencies I installed to do a source build of a LAMP system:
make
gcc
libc6-dev
libncurses5-dev
libncursesw5-dev
flex
bison
libxml2-dev
The "apt-get" or "synaptic" program will suggest more, but those are the ones I directly asked for. In particular libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5-dev are for building Mysql from source, and flex, bison and libxml2-dev are for building PHP from source.
Of course, there's always a possibility that some package has changed and you'll need to ask for something different from what I did, but the above requirements are from a build I did just a few weeks ago so it should be pretty close.
2007-03-04 01:46:45 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you download Ubuntu or used an installation disk? I have Ubuntu and it is fantastic. If you need the installation disk let me know?
I also have XandrOS Business Edition, (a Debian based Linux distro). Even when XandrOS is fantastic for most of my work, I found that Ubuntu recognizes all of my periferals. XandrOS does not recognizes my SD Card reader nor my HP PSC 1310, but Ubuntu did in no time.
2007-03-04 01:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by David G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋