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

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

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

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”