lamp installation

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

> i am running an ubuntu 8.04 with fluxbox. since installing lamp during the
> installation of ubuntu returned an error i tried to install lamp with sudo
> tasksel, but once i select the required software it returns just an error
> which says tasksel:aptitude failed (100)
>
> can somebody help me
>
> don

Did you do something like?:
sudo tasksel install lamp-server

If so, what about doing int the four fold way?:
sudo aptitude install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

Any info in one of the /var/log files?
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