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Ubuntu
Package Management
Update package repository
aptitude update
Update system packages
aptitude safe-upgrade
Search for a package
aptitude search <package>
Install, update, remove a package
aptitude install <package>
Install development libraries
aptitude -y install autoconf automake m4 gcc-3.3 gawk xorg-dev linux-kernel-devel
List all available packages
Find package owner for a file
dpkg -S /bin/bash
How to edit repositories
vim /etc/apt/sources.list
LAMP
Install PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.0
aptitude install php5 php5-curl php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt aptitude install imagemagick
Install PEAR
aptitude install php-pear
Services
See running services
service --status-all
Add, remove a service from startup
aptitude install sysv-rc-conf sysv-rc-conf
Stuff
Install Webmin
aptitude install libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions
Download the Webmin .deb file, then run:
dpkg --install webmin.deb
The service will start automatically. The service name is webmin
Configuration for PHP
Located in /etc/php5
Install and configure an FTPD
aptitude install vsftpd
Configuration in /etc/vsftpd.conf
Install and configure Samba
Samba is installed and runs at startup by default on 10.04.
Configuration is in /etc/samba/smb.conf
The service name is smbd
Install and configure NFS
aptitude install nfs-kernel-server
The NFS daemon is started following installation.
The service name is nfs-kernel-server
Install and configure AppleTalk
aptitude install netatalk
AFPD is started following installation.
The service name is netatalk
Setup monit
aptitude install monit
Edit /etc/default/monit and set startup to 1
The service name is monit
Set default web browser
update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
System
RAID install or setup
aptitude install makedev mdadm mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l mirror -n2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
Change the hostname
Edit /etc/hostname
MOTD
Ubuntu generates its own motd automatically. Add your text to /etc/motd.tail to display on login.
