Ubuntu Server Set Up must haves...

Alan Johnson alan at datdec.com
Thu Mar 11 10:13:06 EST 2010


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:57 AM, <bruce.labitt at autoliv.com> wrote:

> Webmin
>

In case you don't know, this is one of my favorite tricks.  After a `dpkg -i
webmin...deb` fails, just do a `apt-get -f install` and it will fetch all
the dependencies and finish the webmin install.  Super slick.  Or you could
setup webmin repos now that they have them.


> Any other tools that I might as well install in the beginning?
>

apt-get and the shell completion makes it so easy to install after things
are running that I generally avoid installing anything extra until I go to
use it.  However, this is your sandbox, so you do what you want with it.
Screen is one package I almost always install because the network is not
reliable.  To think it is would be a fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing

=)

So, I do anything sensitive inside a screen session in case I get
disconnected.

 I've done many Desktop installs of Ubuntu, but none for a server.  Any
> must haves?  Anything I should watch out for?
>

Only do SSH server as and extra package at install.  Doing other packages on
that install-check-box-package screen might give you extra stuff you don't
want.  I find it is cleaner to apt-get the specific packages after install
rather than an unknown set from the install.
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