Hardy Heron

Upgrading Ubuntu Servers (Hardy to Intrepid)

Posted Wed, 12/17/2008 - 11:47pm by str

If you are using Hardy Server or any other older versions of Ubuntu Server, and you want to upgrade to Intrepid Server or any other future latest Ubuntu Server releases, here are the simple steps...

But before that, please take note that upgrade will not take place by default because 8.10 is not a Long Term Support (LTS) release.

Very important, be sure that you have all updates applied to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS before you upgrade to 8.10.

Here are now the steps:

  1. Install update-manager-core:
    sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

How to install common multimedia codecs in Ubuntu

Posted Thu, 05/08/2008 - 11:08am by str

Sometimes you you want to play some music or video but it doesn't allow you because it asked for some strange codecs that you may not understand :)

Good news is, it relatively easy to download most of them all together.

Here's how:

  1. Switch to super user
    sudo -s -H
  2. Update and upgrade your present system by using these two separate commands
    apt-get update

    apt-get upgrade

  3. Here's now the magic; install the following common codecs

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Apache-PHP-MySQL Server

Posted Tue, 05/06/2008 - 5:52pm by str

Once again, here's my updated simple installation of Apache, PHP and MySQL in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Server.

  1. Install SSH Client and Server (for my remote access)
    sudo apt-get install ssh
  2. Install Database Server
    sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0
  3. Install Apache HTTP Server
    sudo apt-get install apache2
  4. Install PHP5 and Apache PHP5 module
    sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
  5. Restart Apache
    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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