8.04 LTS Server install

We install here the LAMP and OpenSSH Server of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server.

The installation procedure of Ubuntu starts with choosing your preferred language (it's english in this tutorial).

the install screen of Ubuntu

At partitioning, I'm using the default, automated method, so partitioning the whole disk. Others can prefer the manual method, and define three partitions: the swap, the root and the home.

Don't forget to notice the name and password of your first user, you will need it later!

the first user on the LAMP

At the software selection, select the LAMP and OpenSSH server options, and just than continue.

the LAMP and the OpenSSH server options

Then it asks for the password of the MySQL root.

the MySQL root

Some seconds later, the install is completed, and you can reboot. You can left your "CD" in the CR-ROM.

LAMP install completed

And at the end, log on with your user and password you noticed before.

here we are: you can login

So you have an Ubuntu LAMP server out of the box, let's add some supplementary packages we need for Drupal develpoment, like phpMyAdmin, the GD library of PHP, and so on.