Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?

Anita Kuno ay.kuno at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 00:20:25 UTC 2008


I found it interesting to see the use of the word "client" in the postings.

More and more as I use linux and talk with the linux folk, I find
myself using the word "community".

Thought I would share the observation.

Good luck with your project, geo,
Anita.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:46 PM, volksman <v0lksman69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You have some but not all this is the complete list to get Joomla
> running as per my note I sent earlier:
>
> apache2
> apache2-doc
> apache2-mpm-prefork
> apache2-utils
> libexpat1
> ssl-cert
> libapache2-mod-php5
> php5
> php5-common
> php5-curl
> php5-dev
> php5-gd
> php5-idn
> php-pear
> php5-imagick
> php5-imap
> php5-json
> php5-mcrypt
> php5-memcache
> php5-mhash
> php5-ming
> php5-mysql
> php5-ps
> php5-pspell
> php5-recode
> php5-snmp
> php5-sqlite
> php5-tidy
> php5-xmlrpc
> php5-xsl
> phpmyadmin
> mysql-server
> mysql-client
> libmysqlclient15-dev
>
> I believe your problem package right now is libapache2-mod-php5 which
> isn't in your list but is needed to tell Apache to use PHP.  However if
> you don't have all the above you are likely to run into problems later.
>
> BTW:  I'm not going to get into a pissing match about what OS does what
> in a certain way.  Fact is GNU/Linux has traditionally been used by sys
> admins running headless servers (IE command line, all text, no
> windows).  It was only two months ago that Ubuntu released their first
> LTS server product (which still runs headless if you install by CD).
> You can add a desktop later if you want.  Up to that point their main
> focus for 4 years was bringing desktop environments to the average user,
> not server environments.  So the interface just hasn't been built to
> allow average users to setup and maintain server products without a
> little hassle yet.  You think this is hard.  Try setting up a mail server.
>
> However that said Ubuntu members are working this very problem:
> http://en.emanuele-gentili.com/index.php/2008/06/14/rapache-is-born/
>
> Very new (not sure there is even a release yet) but I bet the author
> would like to have some n00bish input to the program.  That's why Ubuntu
> rules.
>
> Best of luck.  Let us know how it goes.
>
> geo wrote:
>> I'm at home now, I have to go out with my wife to pick up some stuff
>> in town - but this is just a quick note.
>>
>> I have the following packages installed - I'm looking at my Synaptic
>> Package manager right now.
>>
>> libct3
>> php5-mcrypt
>> php-auth
>> php-http
>> php-http-request
>> php-net-socket
>> php-net-url
>> phppgadmin
>> screem
>> wwwconfig-common
>> libapache2-mod-php5
>> libgtksourceview2.0-common
>> libgtksourceview-common
>> notification-daemon
>> php5
>> php5-cgi
>> php5-cli
>> php5-common
>> php5-dev
>> php5-gd
>> php5-mysql
>> php5-pgsql
>> php-sybase
>> phpmyadmin
>> php-pear
>>
>> Is this a correct installation? Should Joomla install then?
>>
>> Because it certainly does appear that php should be all installed,
>> right???
>>
>> I still cannot run anything that ends in .php and I've installed this
>> stuff like 3 weeks ago, for 3 weeks it's been not working. I don't
>> understand why this doesn't work if I've installed it by the Synaptic.
>>
>> geo
>>
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 6/24/08, Mark W. Law /<bear at wightman.ca>/* wrote:
>>
>>     From: Mark W. Law <bear at wightman.ca>
>>     Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
>>     To: yaktur at yahoo.com
>>     Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 9:59 AM
>>
>>     Do you have PHP installed and configured in Apache on your server?  I am
>>     getting the dreaded 'what do you want me to do with this page?' error
>>     from
>>     your machine.
>>
>>     Mark
>>
>>     On Tuesday 24 June 2008 09:37:42 you wrote:
>>     > My home computer IS the server. The whole family uses it for e-mails,
>>     chat,
>>     > music, etc.....but I also (through some pure luck?) managed to get Apache
>>     > running on it.
>>     > But I cannot make Joomla do anything!
>>     >
>>     >
>>      http://georutkay.homelinux.org/Joomla/
>>     >
>>     > I got this far. But software complexity is constantly stonewalling me.
>>     And
>>     > I don't know what else to try and open PHP files with. If not Firefox,
>>     then
>>     > what must they be opened with to permit Joomla to install?
>>     > Or is the Joomla installer corrupted? How can I know?
>>     >
>>     > geo
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > --- On Tue, 6/24/08, Phil Thornley <phil at pncpublishing.com> wrote:
>>     >
>>     > From: Phil Thornley <phil at pncpublishing.com>
>>     > Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
>>     > To: yaktur at yahoo.com, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community"
>>     > <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 9:04 AM
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > geo,
>>     >
>>     > When it comes to working with PHP files, they must be put into your WWW
>>     > root folder and opened by accessing the localhost (or domain name) of your
>>     > web
>>      server.
>>     >
>>     > You are not looking for phpmysqladmin, you need to look for phpmyadmin
>>     > which is the system for working with mysql through php. Again these files
>>     > need to be put into your WWW root folder and accessed through your web
>>     > server, not directly via Firefox (it only reads them as standard files
>>     > without the use of a web server).
>>     >
>>     > Phil
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > geo wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > I'm on a bit of a time-budget so if I can't get this working in a
>>     month or
>>     > two, I have no choice but to give up on it and get on to other tasks which
>>     > will become much more pressing in the near future, one of those tasks
>>     > includes finishing up the wireless network of the Windows computers at the
>>     > farm properties - quite a task.
>>     >
>>     > I simply don't have the luxury of trying to do this "that
>>     way". It's not in
>>     > the cards.
>>      Sorry.
>>     >
>>     > geo
>>     >
>>     > Hi Again:
>>     > >From the Language that you are using, you seem to be doing very
>>     complex
>>     >
>>     > things in the other operating systems. Linux is the thing you are
>>     > interested in, so take a bit of time to learn some of the basics with it
>>     > before trying to do the same kind of very complex things, with Linux.
>>     > Not doing this
>>     >  makes the learning curve Slew Rate very sudden. You are
>>     > talking about PHP, and that is a very thick Book, and SQL, and that is a
>>     > very thick book, and you are a Noob to Linux too, and that is a very
>>     > thick Book. Learn a bit of Linux just by it's self. Now the Learning
>>     > curve is very gradual. Then when you've mastered the GUI of your
>>     Choice,
>>     > and a bit of the shell, then Start with SQL. After you got the basics
>>     > with that then go to PHP. Then what people tell you will make some
>>     > sense, in the
>>      Linux way of looking at it. The lingo is a bit different
>>     > in Linux, and after some basics you will know what people are saying
>>     > when you go on a forum.
>>     >
>>     > Make things a bit simple, it's not that you are simple, it just makes
>>     it
>>     > easy to grasp the concepts in Linux this way.
>>     >
>>     > Alfred!
>>     > -----Original Message-----
>>     > From: geo <yaktur at yahoo.com>
>>     > Reply-To: yaktur at yahoo.com, The Canadian Ubuntu Users
>>     >  Community
>>     > <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>     > To: Mark W. Law <bear at wightman.ca>
>>     > Cc: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>>     > Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
>>     > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:26:00 -0700 (PDT)
>>     > Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > Sorry, but how do I do this?
>>     >
>>     > I tried getting phpMySQLAdmin by either Synaptic or by typing sudo
>>     > apt-get install phpMySQLAdmin in the Alt+F2
>>      window.
>>     >
>>     > Nothing. It doesn't exist in either place.
>>     >
>>     > But even if it did, how would i create a new blank database? I don't
>>     > know any of this stuff.
>>     >
>>     > Thanks,
>>     > geo
>>     > PS: Sorry if I came off as a little testy before, this thing just EATS
>>     > so much of my time just to experiment and fail at it again and again.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >         - download and install phpMySQLAdmin (used to admin MySQL
>>     > databases)
>>     >
>>     >         - In phpmysqladmin create a new blank database and call it, say,
>>     >
>>     >  'joomla'
>>     >
>>     >         - Point your browser to http://localhost/[NAME OF THE FOLDER YOU
>>     >         CREATED]/index.php
>>     >
>>     >         - Follow the prompts to
>>     >          install Joomla (it will want the name of the blank
>>     >         database you just created)
>>     >
>>     >         :)
>>     >
>>     >         M.
>>     >
>>     >
>>        On Monday 23 June 2008 20:16:34 you wrote:
>>     >         > Hi Mark
>>     >         >
>>     >         > Ok, I've downloaded Joomla and extracted it to a folder
>>     on my
>>     >
>>     > desktop.
>>     >
>>     >         > I don't know how to install it though.
>>     >         >
>>     >         > Joomla isn't in Synaptic so I had to download it from the
>>     >
>>     > website.
>>     >
>>     >         > There are several files:
>>     >         >
>>     >         > CHANGELOG.php
>>     >         > configuration.php-dist
>>     >         > COPYRIGHT.php
>>     >         > globals.php
>>     >         > htaccess.txt
>>     >         > index.php
>>     >  >
>>     >  > index2.php
>>     >  >
>>     >         > INSTALL.php
>>     >         > LICENSE.php
>>     >         > mainbody.php
>>     >         > offline.php
>>     >         > offlinebar.php
>>     >         > pathway.php
>>     >         >
>>      robots.txt
>>     >         >
>>     >         > ....as well as several folders.
>>     >         >
>>     >         > When I double-click on INSTALL.php, it opens Firefox and then
>>     >
>>     > Firefox
>>     >         keeps
>>     >
>>     >         > asking what to do with INSTALL.php: Open with Firefox or save
>>     to
>>     >
>>     >          disk?
>>     >
>>     >         > So I keep clicking "Open" and it just repeats and
>>     >
>>     > repeats.
>>     >
>>     >         > What do I do with this Joomla then?
>>     >         >
>>     >         > Thanks,
>>     >         > geo
>>     >
>>     > No virus found in this incoming message.
>>     > Checked by AVG.
>>     > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1515 - Release Date: 6/23/2008
>>     > 7:16 PM
>>
>>
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