[olug] linux web server management ?

[Sam Tetherow]

~# apt-get install gnucash
   <output from install of gnucash would go here>
CTLR-D
~> gnucash

I know it works like this I did it about 9 months ago.  It grabbed all 
the supporing gnome stuff I didn't have and installed it as well.

If there is a deb package for it in the apt-sources file it doesn't get 
much more complicated.

Easier than ./setup.exe, I think so, I didn't have to go find the 
package on a web page, I didn't have to download it to a temp directory 
and optionally unzip it either.  I know there is a nice console 
interface (aptitude or apt-find) and there are GUI's as well but I don't 
use them for anything other than looking for a package name or checking 
version on available packages.  One of these days I'm going to spend 
some time on apt-file and figure out how to grep through a list of 
available packages on the command line.

bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
>>apt-get install apache
>>
>>This grabs all dependencies and installs them.  Have you tried to do
>>something similar with one command from the command line in any other
>>distro?  It brings on fits of rage.
>>
>>Another machine is a fileserver with samba.  From the base system:
>>
>>apt-get install samba
>>
>>That's it!!!!  Instant dedicated system!  So wonderfully easy I could
>>almost wet myself.
> 
> 
> Settle down Beavis, that's a TMI if I ever heard one.  :-)  This is all
> well and good, but which is easier,  the apt-get command or d:\setup.exe?
> If you're honest, the setup command is easier.  You don't have to know
> anything to start the install other than where your new program is.  With
> apt-get you have to know the apt-get switches and more importantly what the
> package is called. (I'm not trying to take a shot at you I'm just stating
> my opinion).
> 
> Furthermore what I'm interested in with Linux is not a server, but a
> workstation.  I don't run file sharing and web servers on workstations,
> that's what servers are for.  How about something useful for a general user
> like Gnucash?  Or some other personal finance manager?
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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