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What's the easiest way to set up a LAMP stack?

I would like to install Apache and PHP on my new machine, running Ubuntu 11.10, but I can't see either of them listed in the software centre. What do I need to do to install them? So far as I know, any version will do. I just need to find out how to install them in the way I am least likely to get wrong.

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Brian Hooper
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LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP are external packages. Each package can be configured and installed separately. You may use the following steps to install manually.

Open your terminal and type: 

sudo apt-get install php5 mysql-server apache2

The above command will install latest version of PHP which is version 5 and mysql-server with apache http server 2.

You will be prompted in terminal to give a password for your MySQL "root" user

After the the installation finished check Apache is working. Open your favorite browser and type localhost in the address bar. You should see a message "It works!"

Also check if php is working or if not,

Open your terminal and type: sudo gedit /var/www/info.php

copy and past the following info text 

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save and exit.

Restart apache: 

sudo service apache2 restart

open your browser and type:

localhost/info.php

and you will see the PHP info page.

Achu
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Search for synaptic package manager in the Software Center and install it. Fire it up and then search for apache2 and php5-cli. Install both. Also install libapache2-mod-php5 so you can execute php scripts on your apache server. Good luck!

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