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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