Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser [message #180420 is a reply to message #180410] |
Tue, 12 February 2013 13:42 |
Warren Post
Messages: 2 Registered: February 2013
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On 02/11/2013 02:20 PM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
> The tutorial I looked at talked of XAAMP, where I was basically-ignorant
> of what the acronym might mean.
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> http://my.opera.com/wpost/blog/install-php
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> So I think I need the AMP part. I guess I'm assuming that the L was for
> Linux.
Correct: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP = LAMP. Sorry for not making that
explicit.
> As I look at Apache in the synaptic package manager, I see 200
> choices again.
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> You'd think that someone would have rolled the process togther a bit, as
> many times as it has to have been done.
Most Linux distros that try to be newbie friendly do, called a
metapackage. I'm not on an Ubuntu box to check what it's called there,
but FWIW on Mageia its called task-lamp.
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Warren Post
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