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Setting up a Debian box for development: making a LAMP: apache2

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Add a user for the web stuff # adduser httpd Choose a simple (but secure) password. # apt-get install apache2 Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following extra packages will be installed:   apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3   libaprutil1-ldap Suggested packages:… Continue reading →

Setting up a Debian box for development: linux installation

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This will be a work in progress series of posts to help people get into the amazing world of developing applications on the web. Will also give me opportunity to fine tune my knowledge.   This will be the L in LAMP, here we go:   1. Download a Debian… Continue reading →

Squeeze: Installing VirtualBox 3.2_3.2.12-68302~Debian~squeeze_amd64

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First we install some required packages sudo aptitude install libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqtcore4 libqtgui4 Then we install VirtualBox download from VirtualBox.org : sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-3.2_3.2.12-68302~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb Include your user in the group “vboxusers”