The default LAMP installation on Ubuntu 6.10 doesn’t include mod_rewrite module.
To install mod_rewrite, run command as below:
$sudo a2enmod rewrite
ref : http://www.yinfor.com/blog/archives/2007/04/how_to_install_a_mod_rewrite_o.html

Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distribution out there that will not enable the root account.If you want to do something with root permission on the console you have to type sudo before the command.

sudo” means superuser do. “sudo” will prompt for “Password:”. Please specify user password
As you have noticed during the Ubuntu installation […]

The VMware Server Web-based management interface. Install on your VMware Server system to enable control from a web browser. Includes downloadable VMware Server Console installation files.
Download: 
wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-mui-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
Untar:
tar -xvzf VMware-mui-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
Change into the install directory:
cd vmware-mui-distrib
Fix:
sudo ln -s -f /bin/bash /bin/sh 
Run the installer:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
To access go to https://localhost:8333/
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware restart
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware status
The VMware MUI […]

Installing vmware server from the howto’s on the net, proved not to be very useful. It went all great untill you reach the step to enter your cd key:
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The serial number XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX is invalid
I removed the serial […]

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language). First released in January, 1998, MySQL is now one component of parent company MySQL ABโ€™s product line of database servers and development tools. Yes, it really is this easy.run the following command to change the mysql root password
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql reset-password
New MySQL […]

Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you canโ€™t find .deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm file.Alien is a program […]

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following stepsTurn your computer on.
Press ESC at the grub prompt.
Press e for edit.
Highlight the line that begins kernel , press e
Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
press enter, then press b to boot your system.
Your system will […]

Chang Directory
#cd /home
Download the Auto-installer utility that suits your operating system from http://www.swsoft.com/en/download/plesk8/ and save it on your serverโ€Ÿs hard drive.
#wget plesk_auto_installer_file_name
Set the execution permission for Auto-installer:
# chmod +x plesk_auto_installer_file_name
Run the Auto-installer:
# ./plesk_auto_installer_file_name
if Autoinstaller cannot find some packages during installation on Ubuntu and fails with the error like:
Reading […]

Using apt-get
Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list as root. Change every occurrence of edgy to feisty.
Use any prefered editor. If you have a CD-ROM line in your file, then remove it.
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
or
use the following Simple command
#sed -e โ€™s/\edgy/ feisty/gโ€™ -i /etc/apt/sources.list
Now you need to update the source list using the following command
#apt-get update
Upgrade using the following command
#apt-get dist-upgrade
#apt-get […]

TorrentFlux is a PHP based BitTorrent client. Now that I have a server, may as well use that as a seeder/downloader all the time.The prerequisite is LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP). So let’s install that first.
Install Apache 2:
#apt-get install apache2
Now type http://myComputerName/apache2-default/ to test that it works. You should get the test page.
Install […]