[wellylug] Linux admin advice

[Chris Hodgetts]

Laptop had:

Apache/PHP4/Postfix

Have no need for tomcat or Postgres or PostGIS but apt-get install 
"inset name here" should have atleast installed the "basic" package to a 
working state, one would have thought..


Brent Wood wrote:
> --- Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
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>>20 HOURS!!!!!!!!!
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>>What are they smoking....
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>>Come on this is a distro based on Debian..
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>>apt-get install blah blah blah blah blah
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>>It goes away and installs -- 20 hours my rear end!!!
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> Maybe you stay & watch the whole thing & use a dial up for all downloads as a
> money spinner?
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>>if there was setup of the databases and set up of apache and all that 
>>crap, maybe --- no not even come to think of it...
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>>from barebones system (laptop) to fully working ubuntu setup, 2 hours 
>>max is all it took me
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> About how I felt when I got told. Although I don't know if your laptop had
> apache/tomcat/PostGRES/PostGIS/php installed, but that still doesn't get to 20
> hrs. 
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>>admitted I dont like ubuntu, and now sarge is frozen, will be making my 
>>back to the beloved, but 20 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> Yeah, right!
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>>Where these contractors?
>>
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> Not saying. But I do hope to take the issue further...
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> Brent
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