Re: New Debian user help
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Paul Stuffins paul.stuff...@orqoo.com wrote: Hi Guys, I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. I currently have a couple VPS' and have installed Debian on both of them, one will be my database server, the other will deal with Apache and PHP. Welcome to Debian :-) How did you install squeeze? Can you ping other sites? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvy4b9rtbvc-t3qhv4npgbvwmwxidp4ngssxqcuqpyf...@mail.gmail.com
Re: New Debian user help
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealots here (Debian is an excellent distribution IMHO), but as a refugee from the turmoil of infighting which used to be CentOS, did you consider Scientific Linux 6? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0sku0$59h$2...@dough.gmane.org
Re: New Debian user help
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealots here (Debian is an excellent distribution IMHO), but as a refugee from the turmoil of infighting which used to be CentOS, did you consider Scientific Linux 6? I'm currrently using Squeeze and Scientific Linux 6, because I don't have the spare funds to buy a stack of RHEL licenses and the mailing list support is often faster than RHEL support. (I'd like to think I'm contributing to that for both platforms.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caocn9rwrcfwn4uh1bpk_zwmqr6t982dp4dowk+2mf0ugjra...@mail.gmail.com
Re: New Debian user help
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:49:07 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealots here (Debian is an excellent distribution IMHO), but as a refugee from the turmoil of infighting which used to be CentOS, did you consider Scientific Linux 6? I'm currrently using Squeeze and Scientific Linux 6, because I don't have the spare funds to buy a stack of RHEL licenses and the mailing list support is often faster than RHEL support. (I'd like to think I'm contributing to that for both platforms.) Hah! Ditto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0sqad$c9e$1...@dough.gmane.org
New Debian user help
Hi Guys, I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. I currently have a couple VPS' and have installed Debian on both of them, one will be my database server, the other will deal with Apache and PHP. I have tried to install libapache2-mod-php5 using apt-get, and the output I get from apt-get is as follows: root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libonig2 libqdbm14 php5-common php5-suhosin Suggested packages: apache2-doc apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom php-pear The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libonig2 libqdbm14 php5-common php5-suhosin 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5209kB/5480kB of archives. After this operation, 15.6MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 1.3.9+dfsg-3 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libaprutil1-ldap 1.3.9+dfsg-3 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main apache2.2-bin 2.2.15-5 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main apache2-utils 2.2.15-5 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main apache2.2-common 2.2.15-5 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.15-5 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main php5-common 5.3.2-1 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.2-1 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main php5-suhosin 0.9.31-1 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apr-util/libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3_1.3.9+dfsg-3_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apr-util/libaprutil1-ldap_1.3.9+dfsg-3_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2.2-bin_2.2.15-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2-utils_2.2.15-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2.2-common_2.2.15-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2-mpm-prefork_2.2.15-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/php5/php5-common_5.3.2-1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/php5/libapache2-mod-php5_5.3.2-1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/php-suhosin/php5-suhosin_0.9.31-1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? My question is this, is there something I am not doing to make sure that apt-get is trying to install the correct versions of software? The only thing I have done so far is to change my root password and add a second non superuser. My /etc/apt/sources.list is: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib deb http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main contrib My /etc/debian_version is: squeeze/sid Many thanks for your help --Paul http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/httpd/libapache2-mod-php5
Re: New Debian user help
Paul Stuffins wrote: I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Welcome! root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 ... Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 1.3.9+dfsg-3 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] ... My question is this, is there something I am not doing to make sure that apt-get is trying to install the correct versions of software? Yes. You need to refresh the package index list. Do this first. Then run your install command again. # apt-get update This is only needed when repository packages change, such as for security upgrades. Therefore as an optimization it is only done upon your command. I run an update before starting a series of installs or upgrades or whatever. But I don't need to do it every time I do it. With CentOS my experience is limited but as far as I can see yum runs the equivalent package index update every time you run any yum command. At least it seems that way to me when I have used it. But that can be quite slow. The advantage to apt here is that you don't have to wait for it when it is up to date. The disadvantage is that you need to know and to do it manually when needed. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New Debian user help
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Paul Stuffins wrote: I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. Welcome! root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 ... Err http://ftp.debian.org squeeze/main libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 1.3.9+dfsg-3 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] ... My question is this, is there something I am not doing to make sure that apt-get is trying to install the correct versions of software? Yes. You need to refresh the package index list. Do this first. Then run your install command again. # apt-get update This is only needed when repository packages change, such as for security upgrades. Therefore as an optimization it is only done upon your command. I run an update before starting a series of installs or upgrades or whatever. But I don't need to do it every time I do it. With CentOS my experience is limited but as far as I can see yum runs the equivalent package index update every time you run any yum command. At least it seems that way to me when I have used it. But that can be quite slow. The advantage to apt here is that you don't have to wait for it when it is up to date. The disadvantage is that you need to know and to do it manually when needed. Bob That is excellent, thanks Bob. I used to be quite a fan of CentOS, but over the past year or so I have noticed the support quality has dropped quite alot, and the recent process of getting CentOS 6 out was a nightmare. --Paul
Re: New Debian user help
Paul Stuffins wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Paul Stuffins wrote: I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. root@hydrogen:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 That is excellent, thanks Bob. I used to be quite a fan of CentOS, but over the past year or so I have noticed the support quality has dropped quite alot, and the recent process of getting CentOS 6 out was a nightmare. If you are newly arrived at Debian then let me say another few hints about apache2 that are quite different from CentOS. You probably already know this but just in case let me send a hint. Look at the commands a2enmod and a2ensite along with the opposites a2dismod and a2dissite. They are not required, you can do everything manually, but they are convenient for setting enabling modules and sites for Apache. All of the modules are installed in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ but are not active unless linked into /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ which can be done with the a2enmod command. By default when you install apache2 you will get a basic set of modules loaded. Enabling site default. Enabling module alias. Enabling module autoindex. Enabling module dir. Enabling module env. Enabling module mime. Enabling module negotiation. Enabling module setenvif. Enabling module status. Enabling module auth_basic. Enabling module deflate. Enabling module authz_default. Enabling module authz_user. Enabling module authz_groupfile. Enabling module authn_file. Enabling module authz_host. Enabling module reqtimeout. Only 17 out of the 69 default modules are loaded. That is a good basic start. But if you desire to load up others then they need to be enabled first. You can name them on the command line or if not then it will prompt you. # a2enmod ssl And so forth for other modules. And there are additional modules available to be installed through APT. HTH, Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: new debian user. help :)
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi again :) finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe i mean to provide the isp with user name and password? because in windows on desktop i have icon by presing it i connect to the internet. my modem is connected via lan. According to http://users.pandora.be/Asterisk-PBX/PPPoE.htm you should be asked about those details when installing pppoe and pppoeconf. The configuration of those two packages should also allow you to bring up the network connection automatically at boot time. My ADSL provider uses PPPoE, but I've never had to configure my computer to use it--my router takes care of PPPoE and my computers just use regular Ethernet/TCPIP/DHCP. Maybe if you tell us a little bit more about your network setup then we can help you more. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin pgpjV1SBGQLdk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new debian user. help :)
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:48:58 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: - Original Message From: Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lorenas Bartkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:15:41 AM Subject: Re: new debian user. help :) On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi again :) finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe i mean to provide the isp with user name and password? because in windows on desktop i have icon by presing it i connect to the internet. my modem is connected via lan. According to http://users.pandora.be/Asterisk-PBX/PPPoE.htm you should be asked about those details when installing pppoe and pppoeconf. The configuration of those two packages should also allow you to bring up the network connection automatically at boot time. My ADSL provider uses PPPoE, but I've never had to configure my computer to use it--my router takes care of PPPoE and my computers just use regular Ethernet/TCPIP/DHCP. Maybe if you tell us a little bit more about your network setup then we can help you more. well for now i have configured my PPPoE, but i can't find what else to? how to download and install other packages for basic debian from internet? Hmmm, your quoting is seriously confusing! :-) Now that you have a working network the real adventure starts ;-) No, seriously it's not very complicated at all. Be aware though that since you've chosen to install Debian, and a basic system at that there is a bit of manual work. Not much, and it's a good learning experience for the future anyway. You need to configure the package manager (APT). You can find full documentation of how it works online, I think the APT HOWTO [1] is a good place to start. Since you downloaded pppoe you have a working configuration, but it's probably worth getting a little familiar with APT first (e.g. adding non-free). Once you have APT set up properly you can start installing packages. This is the route I usually follow for desktop machines I install (I've marked the steps that you should run as root with a *): 1. (*)Install and configure the package xserver-xorg 2. Test the xorg configuration that was created in the previous step running `startx`. You should see a rather ugly grey screen. 3. (*)Install your pick of desktop environment. The usual suspects have meta packages which makes it as easy as installing a single package. For GNOME install gnome. For KDE install kde. For XFCE install xfce4 4. (*)Install a desktop manager. Again there are a few to choose between, kdm, gdm, wdm, xdm. My suggestion is to install gdm if you use GNOME of XFCE and kdm if you use KDE. 5. (*)Start the desktop manager. You do that by executing its init script with the argument `start`. E.g. for gdm you execute `/etc/init.d/gdm start`. If you've gotten through all 5 steps without problems you should now have a shiny screen with a login prompt where you can log in. Since this is your first Debian install I'd suggest you document what you do (and as what user you do it, root or your regular user account). This will help a lot if you, heaven forbid, run into trouble. If you get stuck then don't hesitate to send an email to the mailing list. Be courteous and provide as much relevant information as you can. The more effort you spend on finding a solution yourself the better your chances are of receiving help on the mailing list. (Communicating on the mailing list is rather simple really, write emails that you would reply to if you knew the answer/solution. :-) /M [1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html#contents -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus If you can explain how you do something, then you're very very bad at it. -- John Hopfield pgpSbGG7pjdiF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new debian user. help :)
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:32:38 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi again :) finally i've used the command apt-get install pppoeconf and now i have installed pppoeconf (i founded this command from ubuntu which i tried before but i didn't like it) . is there any command to configure pppoe i mean to provide the isp with user name and password? The command is pppoeconf, which you run as root in your terminal (or konsole). This will ask for your user name and password. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new debian user. help :)
hi, I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try debian for the first time. i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror i can't. because it was said no version in this server (i have debian 4.0). my internet connection is pppoe. i have read that pppoe is supported to install debian via network. maybe i did somethig wrong? by the way now it is installed only basical system of debian (i think) i can just use terminal to make a commands. is there any way to configure my pppoe connection and upgrade the system? what commands i shoud use? sorry i am just first time user :) Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/
Re: new debian user. help :)
Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi, I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try debian for the first time. i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror i can't. because it was said no version in this server (i have debian 4.0). my internet connection is pppoe. i have read that pppoe is supported to install debian via network. maybe i did somethig wrong? by the way now it is installed only basical system of debian (i think) i can just use terminal to make a commands. is there any way to configure my pppoe connection and upgrade the system? what commands i shoud use? sorry i am just first time user :) Pinpoint customers http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48250/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v9.php?o=US2226cmp=Yahooctv=AprNIs=Ys2=EMb=50who are looking for what you sell. Does your adsl modem contain a router, if so, you can probably configure it to handle the pppoe connection and set it as your gateway. Otherwise, you will have to configure pppoe for your ISP. Here is the relevant extract from The debian reference manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html) Many broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use PPP to negotiate connections even though customer machines are connected to them through Ethernet and/or ATM networks. This is accomplished by means of PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) which is a technique for the encapsulation of PPP streams inside of Ethernet frames. Suppose your ISP is called myisp. First configure PPP and PPPoE for peer myisp. The easiest way to do this is to install the |pppoeconf| package and to run |pppoeconf| from the console. Then edit |/etc/network/interfaces| so that it includes a stanza like this: iface eth0 inet ppp provider myisp There are sometimes Maximum Transmit Unit (MTU) issues with PPPoE over Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). See |DSL-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/| for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new debian user. help :)
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:07:45 -0700, Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi, I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try debian for the first time. Welcome to Debian. I hope your stay will be long and enjoyable :-) i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror i can't. because it was said no version in this server (i have debian 4.0). my internet connection is pppoe. i have read that pppoe is supported to install debian via network. maybe i did somethig wrong? Yes, it should be supported. by the way now it is installed only basical system of debian (i think) i can just use terminal to make a commands. That's as it should be. The basic system for a network install is VERY minimal. Don't worry though, once you've got the basic configuration done you'll have access to more GUI bling than you can shake a stick at. is there any way to configure my pppoe connection and upgrade the system? what commands i shoud use? Do you have access to the web on another system? Then this page hopefully helps: http://users.pandora.be/Asterisk-PBX/PPPoE.htm Once your network is set up you need to do the basic configuration: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baseconfig.htm Then you can proceed to install packages. Please hold on for a little bit with this, I suspect that you'll get more answers to your email. Some may offer angles and solutions I haven't thought of. Apply own thought as required :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus pgpZKROim7PTO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new debian user. help :)
Lorenas Bartkus wrote: hi, I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try debian for the first time. i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror i can't. because it was said no version in this server (i have debian 4.0). my internet connection is pppoe. i have read that pppoe is supported to install debian via network. maybe i did somethig wrong? by the way now it is installed only basical system of debian (i think) i can just use terminal to make a commands. is there any way to configure my pppoe connection and upgrade the system? what commands i shoud use? sorry i am just first time user :) * * Welcome to Debian! I hope you love the experience. In your Windows XP, if you had an icon on your desktop which you had to double click to make your internet connection (using your internet connection username and password), then your modem was working in bridge mode and your computer was making the pppoe connection. If this was the case, then you would need to set up pppoe connection in Debian as well. However, if you did not have such an icon in XP, and you were connected as soon as you switched on your modem (i.e. you did not have to double click on any icon to make the connection), then your modem was working in pppoe mode. In this case, your computer was getting an automatic private IP address. It appears that, in your case, this isn't happening else your Debian installation should have obtained an IP address automatically. So there are two method now to make your internet connection in Debian: 1. Configure pppoe in Debian and give your username and password. BTW, is your modem connection to your computer via a LAN cable or a USB cable? 2. Boot into Windows XP and reconfigure your modem to work in pppoe mode. Then your Debian installation should automatically get an IP address if your modem is ON. Ask here if you need more clarifications. Good luck, -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
