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On 06/23/2009 04:38 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
> On Mon, June 22, 2009 15:19, bill wrote:
> 
>> Yes it asked me and I did the "figure out which keyboard" script - it
>> just make a mistake.
> 
> You could just re-run the "figure out which keyboard" script. It will be
> probably something like
> 
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure ...
> 
> I don't know the exact name. Hopefully someone else on the list will answer.

/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/configure-debian

or

sudo apt-get install configure-debian
sudo configure-debian

is a nice util to configure they system (keyboard etc).

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/configure-debian

> 
>> The reason I picked the server edition is that I need
>> the LAMP stack for development work.
> 
> Actually you don't really *need* the server edition for the LAMP stack.
> You can do the following on any edition to get a full LAMP stack:
> 
> sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql-server php5

man tasksel

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel

makes it easy.

> 
> This one is a good test to make sure that everything works:
> 
> sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin
> 
> then browse to http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin
> 
> CAUTION! Don't install phpmyadmin on a publicly accessible machine unless
> you have properly secured it.
>