[olug] linux web server management ?

[Eric Penne]

Don't quote me on this but from a base system:

apt-get install gnucash 

would probably download and install everything needed to run gnucash. 
This includes the Window manager and everything else.

I think the only problem with apt-get is knowing the name of the
program you want to install.  some of them are basic like apache and
gnucash.  Others are not so friendly, like kde.  kde itself is not an
installable program, you have to install kdebase.

Finding this name is about as difficult as going and downloading
whatever program you want then finding its setup.exe file.  

I think apt and setup.exe are equivalent in difficulty.

Not much for switches for using apt if you just want to install
programs.  The GUI frontend makes finding the programs easier.  Then
click, click the program and dependencies if needed are downloaded and
installed.  

I haven't worked with urpmi or apt-rpm so I don't know how easy those
are to use.  

Eric




--- 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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