Some apt-get commands
Ubuntu uses the apt package management system which makes updates and upgrades pretty simple.
When logging on, ubuntu summarizes available updates. Use the following to do the updates:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Note, though:
However, if you want to upgrade, unconcerned of whether software packages will be added or removed to fulfill dependencies, use the ‘dist-upgrade‘ sub command.
Many more apt-get commands are summarized in 25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management.
‘man apt-get‘ or ‘man apt-cache’ are also useful.
Hello World
Today I set up a new D7 instance on Amazon Web Services.
Some basics about it:
- The EC2 instance is based on an Ubuntu 12.10.
- apt-get install added apache2, php5, then mysql, xml, mcrypt, mbstring and gd (sometimes the exact names were php5-name, e.g., php5-mcrypt.
- Article at http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/build-a-drupal-installation-on-amazon-ec2/5231 was a helphful checklist.
- After the installation, df -h showed 6.3 Gb available out of 7.9 Gb total. Lots of room.