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Mon, 11 February 2013 20:20   |
Cal Dershowitz
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On 02/11/2013 06:40 AM, Warren Post wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 08:58 PM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
>> The tutorial I looked at wants me to install XAMPP. Is that the best
>> idea for getting a php development environment squared away given that
>> this
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>> $ uname -a
>> Linux fred-desktop 3.2.0-33-generic-pae #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18
>> 16:39:21 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> is my platform?
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> I have a strong preference for using my distro's packages when available
> rather than 3rd party products. In your case, that would be Ubuntu's
> Apache, either MySQL or MariaDB, and PHP, installed and tested in that
> order. This combination is called LAMP.
>
> I haven't had opportunity to set up a LAMP server on Ubuntu, but perhaps
> the notes I took when doing it on Mandriva will help you get going:
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> http://my.opera.com/wpost/blog/index.dml/tag/LAMP
>
Thx all for responses. The tutorial I looked at talked of XAAMP, where
I was basically-ignorant of what the acronym might mean.
http://my.opera.com/wpost/blog/install-php
So I think I need the AMP part. I guess I'm assuming that the L was for
Linux. As I look at Apache in the synaptic package manager, I see 200
choices again.
You'd think that someone would have rolled the process togther a bit, as
many times as it has to have been done.
--
Cal
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