New to Ubuntu

[bill purvis]

On Friday 26 October 2007, Jean Gruneberg wrote:
> bill purvis wrote:
> > I've just switched from Mandrake to Ubuntu. I like
> > what I've seen so far, but there seems to be some gaps
> > in the programs available. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Things I've spotted so far:
> >
> > 	MySQL
> > 	Apache
> > 	PHP
> >
> > all three were part of the standard distribution under
> > Mandrake and I've not yet been able to track down
> > these in Ubuntu or Debian format. Anyone have any
> > advice on the best approach to installing these.
> > When I did a search I noticed various contributed
> > programs which refer to Apache and PHP but no sign
> > of the items themselves.
> >
> > Bill
>
> Hi Bill
>
> I have apache2 / php5 and mysql all available in synaptic.  Do you have
> universe and multiverse enabled in synaptic?
>  (synaptic package manager > settings > repositories > tick the
> appropriate and then reload)
>
> Jean
Thanks for that. I hadn't looked at synaptic - just the
'add/remove software tool'. For some reason I'd assumed
they use the same database - obviously not!

Bill
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